YOU are hereby sentenced to life imprisonment.
To survivors of crime and loved ones who’ve suffered the agony of losing someone or knowing they’ve been violated, hearing a judge utter those words is often a beacon of comfort in a sea of suffering.
It means the person who committed the crime will be removed from society, placed in an institution, and everybody affected can try to find a way to rebuild their shattered lives.
But life behind bars doesn’t mean the perpetrator won’t be released one day – and this fact was driven home recently when Frans du Toit and Theuns Kruger, the men who brutally raped and attacked Alison Botha in 1994, were granted parole after 28 years.
Shortly afterwards, Norman Afzal
