Jilted motor mechanic Alan Gietzmann was on Thursday jailed for life for the premeditated murder of his teenaged girlfriend, Caryn Lindesay.
In addition, he was jailed for 22 years on five counts of inciting five different vagrant men to rape and murder Lindesay.
Gietzmann appeared in the Cape High Court before Judge Denis van Reenen, who said the planning for the murder had stretched over a period of two weeks.
The judge said the murder was the result of Gietzmann’s obsession with Lindesay, and his inability to accept it when she finally ended the relationship.
In his judgement, Van Reenen said it is obvious that someone else not yet brought to book was involved in the murder, probably a Rastafarian who sold Lindesay’s cellphone at the flea market at the Bellville railway station.
The judge said life imprisonment means Gietzmann can only be considered for parole after 25 years in jail.
It also means that the additional 22 years will run concurrently with the life sentence, so that Gietzmann has only to serve 25 years in jail and not 47.
Defence attorney William Booth is considering appealing the convictions and sentence. — Sapa