NATIONAL NEWS - Coffin assault victim Rethabile Mlotshwa has asked the High Court sitting in Middelburg to impose a 15-year jail sentence on Willem Oosthuizen and Theo Jackson.
Rethabile Mlotshwa has been called to the witness stand as part of sentencing proceedings against Oosthuizen and Jackson, who've been convicted on charges of attempted murder, among others.
The pair forced Mlotshwa into the coffin and threatened to set it alight in an attack caught on video.
Mlotshwa has on Monday told the court that he thinks about the attack all the time and is afraid to go out in public.
He has also told the court that the African National Congress has been paying for his counselling.
Coffin assault victim calls for 15-year jail term for his attackers
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Posted on: 16:43 Mon, 23 October 2017
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