Murderer Flavio Hlabangwane has been sentenced to life for killing his then-ex-girlfriend Tshepang Pitse.
He appeared before the Palm Ridge magistrate’s court on Monday where he was sentenced for defeating the ends of justice and violating a corpse.
Hlabangwane was arrested in November 2021 after some of Pitse’s body parts were discovered inside a fridge at his home in Soweto. His girlfriend at the time alerted the neighbours as well as the police after she made the gruesome discovery.
He pleaded guilty to planning the murder and guilty of dismembering her body.
But the distraught Pitse family has since pleaded with Hlabangwane to tell them where some of her missing body parts, including her torso, are. They also asked him to tell them why he killed her so that they can get closure.
National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) regional spokesperson Phindi Mjonondwane said the killing of women continues and it is only through life sentences that men will be deterred from committing the crime.
“More and more women die at the hands of men who are supposed to protect them. The NPA is up to the task to vigorously prosecute those who undermine the right to life and the rule of law,” said Mjonondwane.
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