Des Erasmus
Two members of the Ferodo gang have been sentenced to life imprisonment after the Western Cape High Court in Cape Town convicted them of murdering a pregnant woman and trying to kill six others during a gang turf war in Scottsdene, Kraaifontein.
Jeremia Fortuin and Ricardo Cloete were each given effective life sentences after the court ordered additional prison terms of 107 years and 96 years, respectively, to run concurrently with life imprisonment.
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The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said the court found that the pair fatally shot Shahida Nathan, a 21-year-old woman who was eight months pregnant, and attempted to murder six other people on 21 June 2020, after mistakenly identifying them as members of the rival Mobster gang.
The sentencing comes as the defence force has been deployed alongside police to combat gangsterism and violent crime
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