“THE day I cried, they smiled, they laughed, they had their fun. Now my tears have dried up. We will have joy and laughter on the day she died because it is their turn to cry.”
These are the chilling and heart-wrenching words of Jacqueline Rex, the mother of 17-year-old Cytheria Rex, who was raped and murdered on February 21, 2009.
Now, in an ironic and significant twist 16 years later on the same date - Virgil Sass, Oswill Grootboom, Imeraan Hendricks, Lee Cloete and Rhonwan Rhode, are expected to be sentenced in the Strand Regional Court.
Sentencing for the five men has been scheduled for today, February 21, 2025.
Cytheria’s body was discovered the night after her killing, on the morning of February 22, 2009, in Kraaifontein, after she…