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South African man who murdered wife in order to claim her insurance worth N172,500,000 is jailed for life



South African man who murdered wife in order to claim her insurance worth N172,500,000 is jailed for life

George Barkhuizen, a South African businessman has been sentenced to life in jail in the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg for the murder of his wife, Odette who was killed in what was initially thought to be a hijacking four years ago.

 
He was also handed 15 years for fraud, six years for the possession of an illegal firearm and two years for the possession of illegal ammunition.
 
 
Weeks before his wife was killed in June 2015, Barkhuizen allegedly took out an insurance policy worth R7.5million which is about N172,500,000.
 
 
Odette, 43, was shot in the head and chest and after it was initially believed that her murder was linked to a hijacking, Barkhuizen became the prime suspect.
 
 
Barkhuizen had sent his insurer an email asking if they would pay out if she died in a hijacking, it emerged during court proceedings.
 
 
At the time of the murder, the couple's marriage was going through rough times. 
 
 
One of their sons had reportedly informed the police that his parents were sleeping in separate bedrooms and his mother had indicated that she wanted to file for a divorce.
 
 
Barkhuizen played the role of the grieving husband so well but investigators identified him as a suspect following weeks of investigation. 

 

Barkhuizen's lawyer Rudi Krause indicated his client would appeal the conviction.

by Linda Ikeji at 28/09/2019 6:09 PM
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Anonymous about 4 years ago

Life insurance madness. Let him rot in jail.

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Vincent Da Hot Genius about 4 years ago

South African men are just so useless and heartless.Phew!

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Vivian Reginalds about 4 years ago

Very good news

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RareSpecie Z about 4 years ago

For the love of money. Sad....

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Charles freeman about 4 years ago

That must be tough

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SICELEB about 4 years ago

Dear all, Internet scam is not a violent crime that endangers the lives of citizens and foreign investors, is a social crime and if you doubt check the meaning of social crime online. The use of telecommunication gadgets are private and not prohibited items / gadgets that people should be arrested for and these items tendered as exhibit or evidence. I have lived in USA and other parts of Europe but currently in UK, people are arrested for internet scam through petition and complain by victims after discrete investigation is conducted linking the accuse with the crime or through the use of technology by security agencies that detected your illegal online activities not through report by envious neighbors or friends.. Here people work smart and what working smart means is working from home with your phones and computers as 85% of businesses here are conducted online and people have their offices in their homes.. Your neighbor here does not care if you leave the house every morning or not and what you do to survive is not his or her business because no one pays your bill as he or she does not even know your face. Right of privacy, liberty and dignity is respected here.. Is there any law that prevents Nigerians from making foreign friends, interacting with foreigners, belonging to social dating sites and having foreign contacts in their phones?.. EFCC at the time of Ribadu was like FBI in America that comes and makes arrest after conducting discrete investigation and when you are arrested you will be provided with evidences against you not arresting you to commence investigation and coming to the media to tell the world that you have confessed to the crime which is so unprofessional as it means investigation was never conducted against you before arrest rather on mere suspicion or relied on report from envious neighbors and their informants who is acting to receive stipends from EFCC. The danger in this method of operation is, if I don't like your face and not sure of how your are surviving out of envy, I can report to EFCC that you are a suspected criminal ( Internet fraudster) and EFCC will come and violets your right of privacy. As an adult, how will you feel that a random search is conducted on your phone and computer that are your private effects? Doesn't it mean violation of your rights to privacy and liberty / citizenship right that is a natural right to you as a citizen? Will EFCC stop Southern youths from making use of cyberspace and using modern telecommunication gadgets to stop internet scam because cyber crime is encompassing and majority who are accusing these boys here out of envy are guilty of cyber crime in one way or the other on daily basis. I went to Mali, Kenyan and Ghana in these places, young citizens uses modern automobiles, wears gold and uses latest telecommunication gadgets and no one arrests them as suspected criminals and this is called enjoying the right of citizenship in your country. This is modern world, people live in cyberspace and artificial intelligence is ruling the world as working does not mean being on Government pay roll or having a shop in a popular market where you sale one item or the other that people can see. The owner of facebook and other social media platforms and web providers are supper rich and they do not have a shop neither are they on government pay roll . EFCC with this crude method of operation are denying Nigerian youths most especially Southern youths the opportunity of exploring the world through cyberspace like their peers in other parts of the world.. Internet scam is an age long thing due to technological advancement not a social crime limited to Nigerians alone that an agency like EFCC will waste tax payers money fighting .. Here there are places you don't make use of your credit card if not, junkies will swap it and wipe your money off.. These are crimes that are more prevalent here in Western World that nobody talks about or gives attention. Why EFCC arrest and parade young citizens ( Southern youths) as criminals to the world for a crime against invincible foreigners who neither complained nor petitioned?. EFCC has made so much money through these helpless southern youths and is time to start condemning this outdated and abusive method of operation and resist it. You said they are not working but living above their means, since they are not working, how are you able to measure their means of income to know that they are living above their means? This method of operation by EFCC can only be allowed where citizens do not know their right and live in fear if not, it would have attracted strong resistance and wider condemnation to put a stop to it. Distribute in all social media / whats saps to create awareness.. This abuse and outdated method of operation by EFCC that has no place in civilization must stop.

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Lo about 4 years ago

Mad man

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Oluwabusayo Joseph about 4 years ago

Americans both white and black do kill their spouses over life insurance and may at times end up fucking the best friend. I don't trust Akata at all. They pull up on you and run you over, it's no deal to them.

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Deeboi about 4 years ago

Let him enjoy the money in prison... dee

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MikemyghT about 4 years ago

Hmm.. love of money

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innocent ugo about 4 years ago

Good for him, criminal

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Queensheba Markharry about 4 years ago

Why are south africans so lazy? Instead of working hard to earn some money, they kill and covet other people's money.

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peter about 4 years ago

Ole...you killed her to take over her wealth apparently with another woman is that not wickedness Ogah? please wrought in jail with hard labor

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