Moodley asks for retrial

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Donovan Moodley, the convicted killer of 21-year-old student Leigh Matthews, has asked for a retrial to prove who her real killers are.

Moodley filed a second application for a special entry for leave to appeal against his sentence at the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein on Tuesday, The Star newspaper reports.

Moodley was found guilty of murdering Matthews after he kidnapped her from the Bond University campus in Sandton, Johannesburg, in July 2004. He held her for several hours before taking R50,000 ransom money from her father, and he then shot her.

He was sentenced to life in prison for the murder, 15 years for the kidnapping and 10 years for extortion by Judge Joop Labuschagne on August 4, 2005.

Moodley withdrew his original leave to appeal, but applied for a special entry for leave to appeal last month. This was dismissed by Labuschagne.

On Tuesday, he filed a second application for leave to appeal.

In his application, Moodley said Labuschagne "committed a material irregularity in the proceedings during the conviction".

He said Labuschagne failed to clear up discrepancies in Moodley's confession.

Beeld newspaper reported while Moodley admitted to the murder, he said Labuschagne made no effort to make sure that Moodley had in fact planned the murder.

He said he shot Matthews because he did not know "how else to get rid of her".

"Only after I considered letting Matthews go, after receiving the ransom money, did I realise that it can't be done. I decided there and then to shoot her, and I did shoot her," he said. He did not plan the murder, he said.

He also accused one of South Africa's top detectives, Director Piet Byleveld, of manipulating the investigation of the case, in order to conclude it as speedily as possible, reported Beeld.

He said during the time of the investigation, Byleveld was under "financial pressure" and he had his eyes on a bonus for arresting somebody for the murder.

Moodley said he was going to ask for a retrial as he had new evidence. He wanted to change his guilty plea and would prove who the real killers were.

Byleveld replied to both the newspapers saying that Moodley's statements were "ridiculous".

Moodley now has to wait for a full bench of the Supreme Court of Appeal to rule on his application.
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http://www.timeslive.co.za/news/article240762.ece

Is this guy for real.. makes me :sick:
 
My Daddy was in one. For armed robbery, assault, murder, what the hell, you name it... Him and his cronies used to think that I should write a script about their wonderful experiences...The good old Smuggler's Inn days...

I see it as a 3rd Degree expose on ...whatever...
 
Hahaha, good old smugglers.

Where pimps and fences used to hang out. Does the place still exist?

I know someone who used to hang out there as well.:D
 
How can someone be so stupid and murder someone for 50k.

Damn most people will earn that in 10 months or less. I could understand doing something like for a massive pay off of lets say 2-5 million but 50k?
 
rebel998 said:
Hahaha, good old smugglers.

Where pimps and fences used to hang out. Does the place still exist?

I know someone who used to hang out there as well.:D
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Hehehe! It died in the nineties to to 2000. By then it no longer the same.

killadoob said:
How can someone be so stupid and murder someone for 50k.

Damn most people will earn that in 10 months or less. I could understand doing something like for a massive pay off of lets say 2-5 million but 50k?
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Some do it for what you have on you...Some get lucky with a five or ten...Rand.
 
He said he shot Matthews because he did not know "how else to get rid of her".

"Only after I considered letting Matthews go, after receiving the ransom money, did I realise that it can't be done. I decided there and then to shoot her, and I did shoot her,"
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That is planning. He made a conscious decision to murder her.
 
Quite sad. I heard he said he would leave no legal means untried. Nigga Pleez!
 
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