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The court also made an order for his children and their maternal grandmother to be given psycho-social counselling and any other support by the Department of Social Development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMxosa hacked the deceased to death with a bush knife inside his house in the Correctional Services precinct of West Bank Prison Quarters in East London on March 1, 2022,\u201d said Tyali.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that he committed the heinous act in front of their daughter (9), who had accompanied her mother to fetch clothing from his premises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Mxosa, the couple had legally divorced before 2019 but maintained their relations as a customary married couple, and they visited each other\u2019s homes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBefore the day of the incident, the deceased had broken up with Mxosa again because he had physically abused her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe arrived and asked the deceased whether she was leaving him for good. When she did not answer, he pretended to be assisting her fetching shoes under a bed but took out a bush knife and fatally attacked her. \u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Tyali the daughter ran away and alerted the community about what she had witnessed. He said he was arrested on the same day while drinking alcohol with his friends at a nearby shopping mall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the trial, he pleaded not guilty and claimed that his daughter was imagining things and had been coached by her maternal grandmother to implicate him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"64em9\" data-offset-key=\"fbpc0-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"fbpc0-0-0\">\n<p>State Advocate Andile Nohiya, prayed for the imposition of the prescribed minimum sentence of life imprisonment, arguing that femicide and gender-based violence are rife in their society and deserve harsh sentences, more especially given that Mxosa was a Correctional Officer for 14 years, tasked with ensuring that offenders of similar crimes are rehabilitated.<\/p>\n<p>Eastern Cape Director of Public Prosecutions, Barry Madolo, commended the investigating officer and the prosecutor for ensuring that one of the 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