Woman faces long jail time for the murder of two pensioners

A WOMAN who killed two elderly people as well as committed a host of other crimes, including forging a will and 36 counts of theft regarding cash withdrawals from the account of one of her victims, faces a lengthy jail sentence.

- ZELDA VENTER

Two bodies were found within months of each going missing, both burnt beyond recognition. Both were also strangled and hit with an object before they were set alight. Zaheera Boomgaard was convicted for the two murders but acquitted on a third count of murder against her and this body was never found.

The Gauteng High Court, Pretoria, said there was not enough evidence to link her to the third alleged killing. John Naisby went missing in 2012 after visiting Boomgaard and was never seen again.

Boomgaard, 63, was convicted for the murder of Jamnadas Harkant Nathvani, a British national whose body was burnt beyond recognition, as well as for the murder of her friend, Lyntette Mustapha, 72.