Judge Gayaat Salie-Hlophe was calm and measured as she read out her reasoning for sentencing Lew Geffen Sotheby’s former CEO, Jason Rohde, for the murder of his wife Susan. Calling Rohde “selfish and self-serving”, Salie-Hlophe listed the damage the death of Susan has done to his own children and describe her as being a caring person who clearly loved her family before handing down a sentence of effectively 20 years imprisonment.
The sentence was handed down despite the fact that his mother and friends testified in mitigation of sentence and pleaded with the court for a “fair sentence” for the sake of his children.
“Murder committed by a man on a woman should not be treated lightly,” Salie-Hlophe said, insisting that in this case, it was important that the sentence be not only rehabilitative, but also a deterrent. She explained the murder was particularly abhorrent as Susan had clearly looked to Jason for protection and love.
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