She hired her two cousins to shoot all her family members with her father’s service pistol.
By Mashamba Media
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Onthatile Sebati, 23, and her two cousins were found guilty in the Pretoria high court on Wednesday of murdering her father, mother, eight months pregnant sister and young brother.
Sebati paid her cousins Tumelo and Kagiso Mokone R100,000 from payouts she received after the murders.
She was 15 years old when she came up with the plot to to kill her father, police constable Solomon Lucky Sebati, mother Mmatshepo, a nurse at an old-age home, her 19-year-old pregnant sister,Tshegofatso and her young brother, Quinton at their home at Mmakau near Brits in the North West in December 2016.
They were shot dead with her father’s service pistol.
Judge Mashudu Munzhelele rejected the defence of the three accused and found them guilty on all counts of murder, robbery with aggravating circumstances, possession of a firearm, illegal possession of ammunition and theft.
The three sat in silence with their heads bowed.
The sentencing was postponed to April 16, 17 and 19 so that the pre-sentencing report can be compiled.