Murderess Najwa Petersen has been refused leave to appeal her conviction.
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/ 26 February 2009
Najwa Petersen will appeal against her conviction for the murder of her husband Taliep in the Cape High Court, SABC news reported on Thursday.
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/ 20 February 2009
A lawyer acting for jailed Najwa Petersen has denied that he acted unethically by relaying her responses to questions from a newspaper.
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/ 11 February 2009
Najwa Petersen on Wednesday escaped a sentence of life imprisonment for the murder of her husband Taliep, but was effectively jailed for 28 years.
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/ 5 February 2009
Convicted murderess Najwa Petersen and her three co-accused will be sentenced next Wednesday, Cape High Court Judge Siraj Desai said on Thursday.
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/ 4 February 2009
Najwa Petersen was among the top 3% of earners in South Africa when she killed her husband, Taliep, the Cape High Court heard on Wednesday.
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/ 7 December 2008
Captain Joe Dryden, investigating officer of the case, said they were suspicious of Najwa ”from very early on”.
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/ 2 December 2008
Najwa Petersen and two of her co-accused have been found guilty of the December 2006 murder of her entertainer husband, Taliep.
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/ 1 December 2008
On Monday, a judge repeatedly cast doubt on Najwa Petersen’s version of the events surrounding the murder of her husband, Taliep.
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/ 1 December 2008
The state notched up an important victory in the Najwa Petersen trial on Monday when a key witness was found to have been ”frank” in his testimony.
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/ 22 October 2008
Judgement in the Taliep Petersen murder trial will be handed down on December 1, Cape High Court Judge Siraj Desai said on Wednesday.
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/ 20 October 2008
State witness Fahiem Hendricks, not Najwa Petersen, was the mastermind behind the murder of Taliep Petersen, the Cape High Court heard on Monday.
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/ 20 October 2008
Najwa Petersen’s version of events on the night of the murder of her husband, Taliep, was riddled with improbabilities, the Cape High Court hears.
The final witness in the Taliep Petersen murder trial testified on Thursday, as proceedings were postponed to October 20 for closing arguments.
One of the men charged with musician Taliep Petersen’s murder on Wednesday said he knew he would be caught by the police.
Music legend Taliep Petersen pleaded not to be killed as he lay bound on the floor, one of the men charged with his murder told a court on Tuesday.
One of the men charged with the murder of entertainer Taliep Petersen pleaded with a co-accused not to carry out the killing, a court heard on Monday.
One of the people accused of murdering Taliep Petersen shed tears on Monday when questioned about a show of affection for a baby in the Petersen home.
An accused in the Najwa Petersen murder trial has been questioned about an incident where Najwa allegedly asked him to ”talk her out of the case”.
The man who says he has confessed all in the Taliep Petersen killing faced a grilling on Thursday over contradictions in his statements.
One of Najwa Petersen’s co-accused told a court on Wednesday that she tried to persuade him not to incriminate her in the murder of her husband.
One of Najwa Petersen’s co-accused on Wednesday showed the Cape High Court how she allegedly fired the shot that killed her bound husband, Taliep.
At least two witnesses called by the state to testify against murder-accused Najwa Petersen have been threatened with death.
A Taliep Petersen murder accused testifies that a cluster of phone calls in the countdown to the musician’s killing was just coincidence.
The man accused of recruiting the killers of musician Taliep Petersen took the stand in the Cape High Court on Tuesday to proclaim his innocence.
Najwa Petersen’s son testifies he was ”scared, very scared and shaken” when an intruder entered the room where he slept with his family.
The Cape High Court on Tuesday viewed video footage which showed murdered entertainer Taliep Petersen lying face down in a large pool of blood.
The Scorpions were not involved in the investigation of the Taliep Petersen murder, an affidavit on record at the murder trial has confirmed.
Murder accused Najwa Petersen faced a day of intense cross-examination before Judge Siraj Desai on Wednesday over the death of her husband, Taliep.
Najwa Petersen herself fired the shot that killed her famous musician husband Taliep Petersen, the Cape High Court heard on Wednesday.
Najwa Petersen told the Cape High Court on Tuesday how an intruder put a gun to her head and demanded money on the night her husband was killed.
Slain musician Taliep Peterson had planned to take his wife, Najwa, on holiday to London and Paris, the Cape High Court heard on Monday.