Convicted murderer Thandi Maqubela was granted leave to appeal her
murder conviction in the Western Cape High Court on Friday.
While
the court accepted that another court could come to a different conclusion on
the murder conviction, it however
refused her leave to appeal her fraud and
forgery convictions
Earlier
this year, Maqubela was convicted of the murder of her husband, acting Judge
Ntobeko Patrick Maqubela, and sentenced to an effective 18 years in jail.
The
judge’s decomposing body was discovered in his luxury Bantry Bay flat two days
after he was murdered in June 2009. Following the discovery of his body, it
became apparent that the judge had been suffocated with a piece of cling wrap.
Maqubela
was sentenced to 15 years in jail on the murder charge. She was also sentenced
to three years each for fraud and forgery after she altered her husband’s will.
The court had ordered that these sentences would run concurrently.
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