South African court jails 71-year-old woman for killing three great-grandchildren

A 71-year-old South African woman, Susana “Sarie” De Villiers, has been sentenced to 20 years successful situation for sidesplitting her 3 great-grandchildren.

According to South African quality outlet Nova News, De Villiers pleaded blameworthy to the 3 murders successful March 2025. The Worcester Regional Court successful the Western Cape sentenced her connected Thursday.

The victims were Caleb Booysen, eight; Gradwell Booysen, five; and Joshua Booysen, 18 months old.

The children died connected November 20, 2021, erstwhile De Villiers drove a conveyance disconnected Bainskloof Pass. She survived the clang but sustained superior injuries, including breached ribs and a cervix injury.

The tribunal handed her a 20-year condemnation for each murder. However, the sentences volition tally concurrently, meaning she volition service a full of 20 years successful prison. The tribunal besides ruled that she was not acceptable to person a firearm.

The children had been visiting De Villiers and different relatives astatine her location successful Wellington. She was expected to thrust them location that day, but they ne'er reached their destination.

Witnesses told authorities that roadworks were ongoing on Bainskloof Pass, wherever postulation officers were controlling vehicles astatine stop-and-go points.

They reportedly saw De Villiers thrust past the postulation power points without stopping and walk done a closed roar gate.

Traffic officers stopped different vehicles to forestall a imaginable h...