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Campaign launched after baby Jordan killers apply for parole─── 07:06 Sun, 24 May 2015
Cape Town - Support is expected to stream in via letters and social media as the family of baby Jordan Leigh Norton head to court to contest the parole application of two of the men imprisoned for her 2005 murder.
Zanethemba Gwada and Bonginkose Sigenu’s application will be heard in a Paarl court on Wednesday, June 17.
murder in a trial that sparked national interest.
sentenced to a further 10 years for armed robbery.
Gwada and Sigenu were handed jail terms of 15 years for their part in the murder and robbery.
Baby Jordan’s grandfather Vernon told News24 that the hitmen don’t deserve early release.
baby’s life,” he said.
live their lives. We will never get Jordan back.”
Support for the Nortons has come from as far as Germany and Qatar.
Rodrigues was convicted of hiring the four men, whom she met at a taxi rank and paid R10 000 for the hit. Jordan was the daughter of Natasha Norton and Neil Wilson, who was Rodrigues’s boyfriend.
Friday. By Saturday, the campaign had already garnered over 2 000 likes.
According to a status update by the page administrator, identified as a friend of the family, the public is urged to submit in writing to babyjordanmail@gmail.com reasons why they believe the two murderers’ parole should be denied.
as this have or will affect you and your loved ones,” it reads. “Every email and comment will make the Norton's case stronger.”
The letters will be compiled and presented during the parole process.
Vernon admits while 10 years had passed since his granddaughter’s murder, their pain remains raw.
This campaign, he said, is not only for his family, but also for other children who have been hurt or killed.
is for everyone from Constantia to Khayelitsha.
“No consideration for early parole should be given to the kind of people who commit this type of crime. Their victims aren’t able to get those second chances – why should they?”
