A Durban woman and her roommate have been jailed for life for the 2017 murder of her former lover's 10-year-old son to punish him for ending their romantic relationship.
The KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Durban also sentenced the women to life behind bars for killing the child's 10-year-old friend.
According to National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Natasha Kara, Liziwe Ngwayishe and Amahle Maliwa were roommates.
Maliwa was involved in a romantic relationship with the father of one of the boys.
"At some point in the relationship, Maliwa fought with her boyfriend, resulting in him ending their relationship. The women then colluded and decided that the only way to make him feel the pain that Maliwa felt about the breakup was to kill his child."
She said the duo were aware of a park that the child played in.
"On the day of the offence, the two women lured the child, under the guise that his father wanted to see him, to a bushy area near a canal in the Bluff where he was forced to drink a poisonous substance of potassium permanganate. Once he passed out, they threw his body into the canal."
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