Man Kills Designer for Criticising Home
06 August
2004:
Johannesburg: A South African man told a court how he hacked to death
his interior designer because she criticized his décor, local
newspapers reported yesterday.
Jose da Silva, 37, pleaded guilty to murdering 47-year-old Beatrice
Harrowyn in 2001 after inviting her to his new house in a classy suburb
north of Johannesburg.
“We went through the house and I told her what I wanted. She did not
make any nice comments about my place so I went to my garage and
fetched an axe,” the Star newspaper reported him as saying.
“I killed her because she reminded me of an old school teacher whom I
hated very much.”
Reuters
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