Eight-year robbery plot

Son of couple’s former domestic worker allegedly planned murder from prison, court hears

For eight years, the son of a domestic worker allegedly plotted a vicious attack on the couple his mother had worked for.

The only suspect not to wear a balaclava on the night a champion yacht builder was killed, Bongani Faku allegedly looked 73-year-old Catherine Lethbridge dead in the eye and told her how he had been planning her torturous death from inside his prison cell...

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