‘Devil couple’ who face jail time for murder in Belgium, had SA hideout | Saturday Star

Johannesburg - John La Cote would arrive for work in a Ferrari and sometimes he would bring along his English butler. “You were aware of there being money behind him,” recalls former film director Cedric Sundström.

It was 20 years ago, and Sundström and La Cote were working on a police reality TV show called Duty Calls. Long days and nights were spent in police stations waiting for the police to be called out on a crime. What the police and the rest of the film crew didn’t know then was that they were working with a killer, and John La Cote was not his real name.

His real name was Jean Claude La Cote and together with his ex-wife Hilde van Acker they had killed British businessman Marcu John Mitchell, execution style.

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