A warrant of arrest has been issued for a woman found guilty of causing her husband’s death because she did not appear in court.
|||Cape Town - A warrant of arrest has been issued for a Dunoon woman found guilty of causing her husband’s death because she did not appear in court on Thursday.
Sanah Booysen was expected to be sentenced in the Cape Town Regional Court on Thursday.
Her lawyer, Nawaal Abdurahman, said she did not know where her client was.
“I received no instructions as to why she is not at court. She never came for consultations with the correctional officer and the social worker also had problems consulting with her.”
Although Booysen was initially charged with murder after stabbing her husband, July Skiti, during an argument on December 2, magistrate Wilma van der Merwe found that the State had not proved Booysen intended to kill Skiti. Instead, Van der Merwe found that Booysen had been negligent.
Booysen had earlier testified that she was sorry she had killed Skiti.
Booysen said she grabbed the knife to stab him so that he would collapse and she could get away. But the knife slashed into an artery and he bled to death. She asked for a life sentence.
According to the charge sheet, she has one previous conviction for culpable homicide in 1992. The case was postponed to August 15.
jade.otto@inl.co.za
Cape Argus
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