HE HEAVED a sigh of relief when the judge handed down the verdict. The man he’d spent hours hunting, who’d ruined the lives of so many women and children, was going to be locked away for a long time – and the community he’d terrorised would sleep easier knowing they were free of a monster.
Captain Martino Plaatjies had spent the past two years working around the clock trying to see justice served and that day finally came a few weeks ago.
In a case that made headlines around the country, the man convicted of the rape and murder of eight-year-old Tazne Van Wyk was handed nine life sentences for abducting, raping and killing her in