Chatterton Jacqueline Ivy "Jackie"

Age 46. the attack was orchestrated by a disgruntled former employee who had left his job following a dispute with his superior. On the night of October 31, 2005, two men forced entry into the farm homestead while Jackie's husband, James Chatterton, stepped outside to switch off a noisy generator. The intruders locked the house doors from the inside, preventing her husband from rushing back into the house to rescue her despite hearing her anguished screams. Inside the residence, the intruders subjected Jackie Chatterton to a savage and prolonged knife attack. A post-mortem forensic examination determined that she was stabbed between 31 and 41 times, with multiple deep penetrations to her lungs. She died at the scene from severe sharp-force trauma and massive hemorrhaging caused by the multiple stab wounds to her lungs.Law enforcement officials arrested both suspects at the scene or shortly thereafter. James Chatterton and several farm colleagues eventually forced their way back into the homestead, where they trapped one of the killers inside a bathroom, allowing the arriving police to arrest him immediately, while the second accomplice managed to temporarily escape through a burglar guard before being tracked down. The two perpetrators were identified as 22-year-old former employee David Ndlovu and his friend, Thuthukani Miya.The legal proceedings took place in the Pietermaritzburg High Court before KwaZulu-Natal Judge President Vuka Tshabalala and Acting Judge Nompulelo Hadebe. Both men faced trial in May 2006. David Ndlovu entered a formal guilty plea, admitting his direct role in the housebreaking and murder. On May 23, 2006, Acting Judge Hadebe sentenced David Ndlovu to life imprisonment for murder, stating that no compelling circumstances existed to reduce the mandatory statutory sentence. The second suspect, Thuthukani Miya, initially attempted to argue that he had only stabbed at the victim to make her loosen her grip on him, but his defense was rejected. On May 30, 2006, Judge President Vuka Tshabalala found him guilty and sentenced Thuthukani Miya to life imprisonment for murder, describing the crime as one of the most savage and brutal killings imaginable.