Read the full judgment text of CACC 000067/1994 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 16 August 1994.
2. The facts can be simply stated. The applicant was friendly with his victim but he stole a bank card from him and removed money from his account. According to a statement later made by him, he visited the deceased's flat to replace the card which he had taken and took along with him a length of speaker wire. He said that this was for his own protection in case the deceased became angry with him. During the visit, the deceased was killed by the defendant by the placing of a ligature round his n