The Pretoria High Court has sentenced a woman to 25 years imprisonment after she was convicted of hiring her cousins to kill her parents, sister and brother when she was just 15 years old.
Onthathile Sebati appeared in court on Tuesday for sentencing along with her cousins, Tumelo and Kagiso Mokone.
The siblings were both handed life sentences.
previously reported that the North West woman, a teenager at the time of the crimes, paid her cousins R50,000 each for their roles in the murders. She obtained the monies from payouts received once her parents died.
The trio were charged with murder, theft, robbery with aggravating circumstances, possession of a firearm and possession of ammunition.
In 2021, Sebati confessed that she gave her father, police officer Solomon Lucky Sebati’s firearm to kill her mother, nurse Mmatshepo Sebati, as well as her 19-year-old pregnant sister Tshegofatso and six-year-old brother Quinton at their home in Mmakau, in the North West.
After shooting the family, the Mokone siblings fled the scene in Sebati’s father’s car, which was later found abandoned a few metres from the home after the car got stuck in mud.
In the lead up to the sentencing the trio initially pleaded guilty but DNA was able to link one of the brothers to the crime. The others confessed.
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