News24 reports that a man from Pretoria who shot and killed a farmworker whom he thought was a bushpig, was sentenced on Tuesday in the Modimolle Regional Court to six years in prison.  

Magistrate Peter Manthata noted that Stefan Hepburn, 40, did not show remorse for killing Jan Railo.  Railo, 23, was shot and killed on a farm in Tuinplaas in Limpopo by Hepburn during an alleged hunting incident, it was reported at the time.  Hepburn and his wife were apparently hunting bushpigs on a friend's farm on a Saturday night when Hepburn fired shots in the direction from where he heard movement.  Railo died on the scene after sustaining a wound to the face.  The aftermath of the killing of Railo was a "sad case", Democratic Alliance (DA) MP Desiree van der Walt told News24 in 2017 because, without one of its breadwinners, the family was in desperate need of support.

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