The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has confirmed that Dina Rodriques, the woman who planned the murder of six-month-old baby Jordan-leigh Norton in 2005, will be eligible for parole in eight years after initially being handed a life sentence.
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Jordan-Leigh was murdered inside her home in Landsdowne on June 15, 2005. Rodriques was in a relationship with her father, Neil Wilson, at the time of her death. IOL reports that Rodriques’ reasons for the murder of Jordan-Leigh were that she couldn’t accept her existence, and had imagined the baby’s death. She confessed via affidavit to hiring someone to kill her and reportedly told Wilson that she paid R10 000 to ‘make the problem go away’.
Rodriques was convicted of masterminding the murder alongside Zanethemba Gwada, Bonginkosi Sigenu, Sipho Mfazwe and Mongezi Bobotyane – whom she hired to carry out the deed – and sentenced to life in prison in 2007. Gwada and Bonginkosi were granted parole in 2017 and 2018, respectively.
Singabakho Nxumalo, spokesperson for the DCS, says her hearing will occur on December 27, 2031.
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