'Evil and unremorseful': Woman gets 3 terms for killing 2 lovers, son

JOHANNESBURG - The presiding judge in a matter against a Centurion woman convicted of killing two lovers and her son has ruled that she was evil and showed no remorse.

Pamela Selani was handed three life sentences in the Pretoria High Court on Monday.

The court found that she committed the murders between 2016 and 2017 in Olivenhoutbosch where she buried all the bodies in her backyard.

The Pretoria High Court learned that in 2016, Selani planned to have her partner, Michael Changisa, killed after she discovered that he had infected her with HIV.

She conspired with her second lover, who beat Changisa with a hammer until he died before she turned on him as well a year later.

It was found that Selani murdered her second lover for allegedly being abusive, rallying her 17-year-old son to help drown him.

She then murdered her son, who had threatened to report her to the police.

But it was her 14-year-old son who witnessed the murders and then reported this to a traditional healer that his mother had taken him to see three years later.

The traditional healer then reported this to a community leader in Olivenhoutbosch, who called the police.

While handing Selani her sentence, Judge Papi Masopa said it was by mercy that the 14-year-old who reported the crime had not been killed.