Sentencing gets underway in Maritzburg murder case
Convicted triple murderer, Kershwin Goldstone will soon know his fate.
Sentencing proceedings for the 22-year-old are expected to get underway in the Pietermaritzburg High Court today.
Earlier this month, Goldstone was arrested for murdering three retirees in central Pietermaritzburg.
By the time he'd made his first appearance before a magistrate - he'd already confessed and last week, he was brought before a judge to tender a formal plea.
Goldstone stands convicted on eight counts - including murder, housebreaking with intent to steal, theft and aggravated robbery.
In his plea, before Judge Piet Bezuidenhout, he last week admitted to having stabbed and strangled two women and one man to death.
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All of Goldstone's victims were in their late eighties and early nineties and they were all killed within close succession over a three-week period, in July.
He's reportedly said the crimes were fuelled by his drug addiction - that he broke into his victims' homes to rob them in order to buy drugs and that he killed them, to stop them from calling out for help.