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CALLS FOR JUSTICE IN LONGEST RUNNING MURDER CASE
Cape Argus
|July 03, 2025
CYNTHERIA Rex's life mattered and her family has the right to see justice.
These are the words of Ilitha Labantu, an organisation that advocates for the rights of women and children, as the longest running murder case in a regional court in South Africa continues to drag.
Rex was 17 years old when she was raped and stabbed to death more than 30 times in 2009 in Kraaifontein by a group of seven young men.
The case has been postponed nearly 130 times and is believed to be the longest-running trial in history in South Africa.
Virgil Sass, Oswill Grootboom, Imeraan Hendricks, Lee Cloete, and Rhonwan Rhode were convicted in November 2024 of Rex's murder, while two of the accused - Warren Robertson and Keenan Lewis, have since died.
A sentencing date was scheduled to be decided on June 20, but instead, news arrived that the judicial team were incapacitated, once again dashing the hopes of the family to see the end of the case.
This story is from the July 03, 2025 edition of Cape Argus.
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