NATIONAL NEWS - Kyle Maspero, a former Knysna resident, pleaded guilty to a charge of murdering his ex-girlfriend’s mother, Rosemary Theron in 2013.
Maspero appeared in the Western Cape High Court this morning.
The victim’s daughter, Phoenix, is already serving a 15-year prison sentence for her role in the murder.
Shortly after the case was postponed until November 14, Shamiela Fisher, Eyewitness News reporter in Cape Town, told the Knysna-Plett Herald that Maspero's defence, advocate William de Grass read out a statement to Judge John Hlope in which Maspero admitted to smoking dagga and tik on several occasions on the day of Theron’s murder.
"He says he and his then girlfriend Phoenix got into an argument with her mother about sending her youngest sister to school. Maspero claims they went into a room and smoked dagga and then hatched a plan to kill Phoenix’s mother."
