A man who publicly assaulted his wife two days before murdering her,
has been sentenced to life in jail by the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in
Durban, the NPA said on Thursday.
During sentenced in Wednesday,
he also got a suspended six-month jail sentence for assault, National
Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Natasha Kara said in a statement.
Sivakumar Sugen Naicker, 39, killed Lorraine Munsamy in KwaDukuza on January 14, 2016.
They
were estranged and living apart. Kara said Munsamy obtained a
protection order and a domestic violence interdict against Naicker a few
months before her murder.
"Two
days prior to the murder, the accused approached his wife on two
occasions, assaulting her in public, telling her to withdraw the
interdict. She subsequently laid two charges of assault against him."
The following day, Naicker, armed with a knife, boarded the taxi his wife took to work.
"He
sat behind her and waited for the taxi to be empty. He then produced a
knife and stabbed her repeatedly in her chest and body. The taxi driver
and conductor intervened and he fled."
Naicker stabbed himself in an attempt to commit suicide.
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