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A Chatsworth teenager convicted of murdering her stepfather claims she is being intimidated by the man\u2019s family.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, the girl, who cannot be named because she is a minor, appeared briefly in the Durban Regional Court, where her lawyer said she had received intimidating calls.<\/p>\n

In May this year, the girl pleaded guilty to the murder of the 32-year-old man before magistrate Anand Maharaj. In her plea, she said she had slipped sleeping tablets into the man\u2019s tea in October 2009. When he fell asleep, she strangled him with a dressing gown belt. She wound the belt around his hands to make it look as if he had committed suicide.<\/p>\n

Apparently overcome with guilt three days after the man\u2019s funeral, she confessed to her mother and then to the police.<\/p>\n

Motive<\/p>\n

The motive for the murder has not yet been revealed and, according to the teenager\u2019s attorney, Siven Samuel, this will be made known at the sentencing stage.<\/p>\n

The case had been set down for sentencing on Thursday, but Samuel said the defence wanted another correctional officer\u2019s report to be done as they believed that the first report had been biased against the girl.<\/p>\n

Samuel added that the teenager had received intimidating phone calls from the victim\u2019s family.<\/p>\n

State prosecutor Val Melis also asked that the girl have no contact with her mother, as it was believed the teenager was being unduly influenced.<\/p>\n

Maharaj ordered that the girl not have any contact with the victim\u2019s family or her mother.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the case of your mother, I will allow contact over the holiday period, but this must stop as of January 1 next year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Angry relatives of the girl\u2019s stepfather were disappointed by the adjournment, saying they wanted justice to be done. The case was adjourned to February for sentencing. – The Mercury<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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