South African Woman Gets Three Life Terms For Killing Two Boyfriends And Son.

A South African woman has been sentenced to three life terms for the murders of her two boyfriends and her 17-year-old son, whose bodies were all buried in her backyard.

Ncumisa Selani was convicted and sentenced by the Pretoria High Court for killings that occurred between 2016 and 2018 at her Pretoria home.

Prosecutors told the court how what began as a revenge plot spiralled into a series of calculated murders, with each victim buried on top of the previous one in a single grave.

In 2016, after discovering she had contracted HIV, Selani allegedly blamed her Malawian boyfriend, Michael Changisa.

Evidence presented at trial showed she enlisted another partner, Michael Phiri, a Zimbabwean national, to kill Changisa, whose body was buried in the yard.

The following year, Selani’s relationship with Phiri soured. Prosecutors said Selani and her teenage son killed Phiri and buried him directly above Changisa’s remains.

The most shocking turn came in 2018, when the court found that Selani killed her own 17-year-old son after he allegedly began using drugs and threatened to expose the earlier murders unless he was paid. His body was buried on top of the two previous victims.

The crimes remained hidden until 2020, when Selani’s younger son reportedly revealed the grave’s location to a traditional healer.

Police were alerted, and forensic teams uncovered the remains, leading to Selani’s arrest.

During sentencing, the court described the crimes as premeditated and deeply disturbing, showing the breach of trust and deliberate concealment.

The judge ruled that three life sentences were warranted, given the severity of the offences. Source TownPress