The man who was convicted of murdering 'Matwetwe' actor Sibusiso Khwinana has been sentenced to life in prison.
A scuffle then broke out and Khwinana was stabbed in the heart. Julius Lucas, 36, appeared in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on Wednesday where Judge Portia Phahlane handed down the sentence for the murder. The man who was convicted of murdering Matwetwe actor Sibusiso Khwinana has been sentenced to life in prison.
The High Court in Pretoria has sentenced a 37-year-old man to life in prison for the murder popular actor Sibusiso Khwinana.
His application for leave to appeal the conviction and sentence was dismissed. "The only appropriate sentence for him was that of imprisonment because he showed no remorse and had no respect and understanding of the importance of taking an oath, because he lied several times during his testimony." Julies Lucas was handed an additional 23 years for robbery and being in the country illegally.
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has welcomed the life sentence handed down to Julies Lucas for the murder of Matwetwe actor, Sibusiso Khwinana.
The judge said Lucas showed no remorse and he robbed South Africa of a talent.” In the video report, a report of Kwinana’s death as it was announced in 2019: In February, Lucas who is a Tanzanian national, was found guilty of murder, robbery with aggravating circumstances and contravening the Immigration Act as he was in South Africa illegally.
The man convicted of killing Matwetwe actor Sibusiso Khwinana has been sentenced to life imprisonment in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria; The 36-year-old ...
The publications reports that Lucas was not happy with his legal representative's service. Sibusiso was fatally stabbed in March 2019 at Sterland Mall in Arcadia, Tshwane. The man who stabbed young actor Sibusiso Khwinana has been jailed for life.
The Judge said the only appropriate sentence for the actor, Sibusiso Khwinana's killer, Julies Lucas, was imprisonment.
“He also informed the court that Lucas had two previous convictions of drug possession in 2015 and 2016. “The only appropriate sentence for him was imprisonment. He also thanked the Court Preparation Officer Amokelani Mashela for an outstanding job done. “When sentence proceedings were to start on 28 March 2022 he tried to delay the process by firing his attorney. During the struggle, Lucas stabbed Khwinana in his chest with a sharp object and fled the scene,”National Prosecuting Authority (NPA)Pretoria Regional Spokesperson, Lumka Mahanjana said. “Prosecutor, Advocate Jeffery Nethononda said Lucas was an opportunistic robber.
He was also sentenced to 15 years for robbery with aggravating circumstances and eight years for contravening the Immigration Act, after it was found that ...
However, his delay tactics failed to work after Judge Portia Phahlane explained to him that as he cannot pay for his own lawyer, he was not in a position to pick and choose who he wanted to represent him and was given until May 3 to put in writing exactly what his gripe is with the state appointed lawyer. Lucas, who was at length told that this could delay the finalisation of his trial by a year, was adamant as he wanted to “satisfy his heart.” He said he was wrongly convicted as he is not the killer. Lucas, 37, was convicted of murder and robbery in February after the court accepted the evidence of three eye witnesses that he was the man who had stabbed Khwinana outside the movie theatre complex that night and robbed him of his cellphone.
The 25-year-old actor was stabbed outside the Sterland cinema complex in Pretoria during what is believed to have been a cellphone robbery. The incident ...
His application for leave to appeal the conviction and sentence was dismissed. The 25-year-old actor was stabbed outside the Sterland cinema complex in Pretoria during what is believed to have been a cellphone robbery. The High Court in Pretoria has sentenced a 37-year-old man to life in prison for the murder of popular actor Sibusiso Khwinana.
The court order convicted killer Julius Lucas, a Tanzanian national to be deported after his sentence. He was found guilty of the murder.
The court also ordered that Lucas be deported back to his country of origin after serving his direct sentence. Khwinana and his friend were understood to have been attending a screening of the movie before the fatal robbery occurred. Khwinana was popularly known for his role in the award-winning movie Matwetwe. Khwinana, who starred in the film as Lefa, was stabbed to death in a robbery at the corner of Pretorius and Steve Biko streets in March 2019.