Olievenhoutbosch Killer Richard Nyauza Gets 16 Life Terms for Murdering 16 Women Near Pretoria
The judge called Nyauza "an evil, perverted serial murderer." The killings had stopped while he was in jail and started again after his release.
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Sixteen women were killed near the Olievenhoutbosch informal settlement outside Pretoria, in two waves four years apart. On November 5, 2007, Judge John Murphy sentenced Richard Jabulani Nyauza to 16 life terms for their murders.
Nyauza was convicted on all 24 charges against him in the Pretoria High Court, and also received 140 years for rape, robbery and attempted murder. "You are an evil, perverted serial murderer who poses an extreme danger to society in general and women in particular," Murphy said, recommending that he stay in prison for the rest of his life. Many of the women have not been identified. A woman who survived an attack in 2006 lost her unborn baby and suffered lasting injuries.
The judge rejected Nyauza's claims of innocence. Besides DNA and cellphone evidence, and Nyauza's own pointing-out of seven of the murder scenes to police, the court accepted linkage analysis by police psychologist Gerard Labuschagne concluding that the same man had killed all of the women. The murders stopped after Nyauza was arrested at the end of 2002 and began again in 2006, shortly after his release from jail. "I feel nothing. They're doing too little. It changes nothing," Nyauza told reporters after the sentence.
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- I feel nothing, says 'evil, perverted' serial killer, Mail & Guardian
- Killer gets 16 life terms, News24