Dina Rodrigues — jailed for life for the murder of six-month-old Jordan Leigh Norton — on Friday filed papers at the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) for leave to appeal her conviction and sentence.
The Cape High Court in June this year handed down life sentences to 26-year-old Rodrigues and two accomplices for the contract murder of baby Jordan.
Delivering judgement then, High Court Judge Basheer Waglay said the murder, in June 2005, was ”calculated, callous and cold-blooded”, and ”cowardly and cruel in the extreme”.
Rodrigues had hired four accomplices to murder the six-month-old infant after learning that her lover at the time, school teacher Neil Wilson, had fathered the child during an earlier relationship with the baby’s mother, Natasha.
Rodrigues is currently serving her sentence at the Worcester Prison in the Western Cape.
The high court earlier rejected applications by Rodrigues and three of her accomplices to appeal their convictions.
Judge Waglay, however, granted Rodriques leave to appeal against her sentence of life imprisonment before a full bench of the Cape High Court.
Nevertheless, Rodrigues asked for permission that the appeal against sentence, already granted at the Cape High Court, not be heard there but rather in the SCA in Bloemfontein — along with an appeal against her conviction. — Sapa