The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has welcomed the sentencing of Suretha Brits for the murder of her hotelier husband, Leon in Pofadder.
Leon’s body was found in a swimming pool in October last year. It had several stab wounds.
Brits was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Circuit High Court in Upington in the Northern Cape.
She further received a 15-year jail term for robbery with aggravating circumstances.
The sentences will run concurrently. She was accused of being the mastermind and allegedly offered R400 000 for the orchestration of the murder on her husband, the owner of the Pofadder Hotel.
The NPA’s Mojalefa Senokoatsane says: “The NPA is happy with the plea agreement sentence that the High Court has given to Suretha Brits, considering the charges that she was facing, that of murder as well as robbery with aggravating circumstances. We are just waiting for the 22nd of November for the trial of her two co-accused to commence after the prosecutions, led by Advocate Hlute who requested a separation of trial.”
