Dina Rodrigues and her two accomplices in the murder of baby Jordan Leigh Norton have failed in a court bid to get their life sentences reduced, the Star reported on Friday.
Judges Andre le Grange and Jeanette Traverso found that the life imprisonment of Rodrigues, Sipho Mfazwe and Mongezi Bobotyane was the correct sentence for the ”callous” murder.
”The motive for this callous killing of a baby in the sanctity and security of her home can evoke very little mercy or sympathy, if any,” said Le Grange.
Rodrigues was the mastermind behind the murder of the six-month-old baby. She paid her accomplices R10 000 to gain access to the infant’s parental home by means of a fake courier delivery on June 15 2005.
At the time of the slaying, Rodrigues was romantically involved with the baby’s father, school teacher Neil Wilson.
Rodrigues, who planned to marry Wilson, wanted to save him the financial burden of paying maintenance for the baby.
Baby Jordan Leigh Norton was stabbed in the neck and then suffocated with a pillow. — Sapa