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The Witness reports that two former employees were found guilty yesterday of strangling Verulam businessman Govindaraju Chinnian to death in a storage container on 3 May and then dumping heavy bags of cement on his body.
Bongani Mhlongo and Sizwe Mthethwa pleaded guilty to murdering Chinnian, saying they were unhappy about the way he treated them, and also admitted they stole money and a cellphone from him. Judge Thoba Poyo-Dlwati will hear evidence in mitigation and aggravation of sentence on Friday. Chinnian’s son, Pregasen, told The Witness after the hearing that the family “totally disagrees” with the allegation by the two killers that his father ill-treated them.
- Read this report by Ingrid Oellermann in full at The Witness
- Read too, Workers admit killing boss in storage container, at Daily News
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