Tazné Van Wyk killer sentenced to 9 life terms
The High Court in the Western Cape has sentenced kidnapper, serial rapist and murderer Moyhdian Pangkaeker to nine life sentences for the murder of eight-year-old girl Tazné van Wyk.
Tazné went missing in Elsies River in February 2020 and was later found in a storm water pipe on the N1 outside Worcester nearly two weeks later after her disappearance.
Moyhdian Pangkaeker was convicted in October 2022 on 21 of the 27 charges he was facing.
The charges include eight counts of rape of children, sexual assault and sexual exploitation of children, several counts of assault of children, kidnapping, incest, desecration of a corpse and absconding from parole.
NPA spokesperson Eric Ntabazalila says there were no compelling and substantial circumstances which forced the court to deviate from the prescribed minimum sentences.
In 2001, he was convicted and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for culpable homicide and kidnapping of his child by the Bellville Regional Court, he was also convicted for child neglect.
