Levonna Jacobs has been found guilty of all TEN counts she was facing relating to the murder of her aunt and cousin who she smothered to death and buried in their own backyard.
A defeated Jacobs, 38, heard her fate at the Western Cape High Court on Tuesday morning where Judge Mushtak Parker carried out judgment in less than an hour after a marathon trial.
Parker concluded that Jacobs orchestrated the murders from the beginning by first gaining control over the lives of her aunt, Virna Jacobs, 47, and cousin, Rowena Jacobs, 26 and then taking over their home in Sering Street, Delft and their finances.
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The State proved that Jacobs had killed the two women to gain ownership of the house after her uncle Donovan Jacobs death in March 2015.
The women’s decomposed bodies were found buried in their own backyard in December 2015.
Parker said Jacobs was guilty of all ten counts she was facing ranging from theft, kidnapping, fraud, forgery, defeating the ends of justice and including two murders.