Publish date | 23 May 2019 |
Issue Number | 4704 |
Diary | Legalbrief Today |
Stacey Adams’ killer, Christopher Brown, has been sentenced to four life terms for the girl’s rape and murder, and for the murder of Thulisa Lavisa, the mother of his 4-year-old son. According to a report on the IoL site, Brown entered a plea and sentence agreement with the State at the Western Cape High Court. He was sentenced to four life terms plus nine months in jail, set to run concurrently. Brown pleaded guilty to raping and then strangling Stacey (6). Her naked body was discovered buried in a shallow grave next to Brown’s wendy house in De Larey Road, Eastridge, in Mitchells Plain on 24 June last year. The State also reopened a cold case of 2015 where Brown assaulted Lavisa by hitting her with a fist in the face in August of that year. A month later, he strangled Lavisa to death and then hid her body under his bed. Lavisa’s body was discovered by her family the following day, 21 September 2015. Court papers state that Brown was previously arrested for Lavisa’s murder, but the charges were subsequently withdrawn.