Durban father Sibusiso Mpungose, 41, who is accused of hanging his three small children and 16-year-old stepdaughter Ayakha Jiyane abandoned bail in the Pinetown Magistrate’s Court on Friday.
Sibusiso Mpungose during a previous court appearance.
Mpungose was handed the sentence in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg on Wednesday after pleading guilty in October. He had hanged his three small children and 16-year-old stepdaughter in Durban.
He will return to court to face an additional charge of rape in an unrelated incident, which allegedly occurred mere days before he took the life of his children.
More to follow.
Tension, tears and despair filled the room when Durban mother Xoli Mpungose described in painful detail the discovery of her four children who were hanged by her partner Sibusiso Mpungose.
