A FORMER Verulam security guard has been give a jail sentence for the premeditated murder of Lindani Mthethewa during the July 2021 looting and public violence.
On Monday, Judge Mohini Moodley sentenced Joel Fenton Pillay, 38, to 20 years imprisonment for the murder committed on July 12, 2021.
He was convicted last Wednesday.
At the time, Mthethwa, 28, a supervisor at Shoprite, was walking on Ireland Street in Verulam when Pillay drove past him in a marked vehicle owned by