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Marolien Schmidt's brother, Casper, consoles their mother, Sineke, after her murderer was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Eastern Cape High Court in Gqeberha on Wednesday. On the left is Marolien's friend, Rebecca Gatangi.
While still trying to process the news of her daughter's gruesome death, the mother of a murdered Gqeberha physiotherapist went to the mortuary, lifted the sheet off her daughter's body and broke down when she saw the wounds.
Sineke Schmidt told the horrific tale of the trauma she is still experiencing in a victim impact statement.
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