Mother pleads guilty to murder of four children

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Her lawyer read out her plea statement saying she consumed some of the poison to try to kill herself.

Maditla says she consumed some of the poison to try to kill herself.“I admit I have no defence in law for my conduct on that day. I request the court for mercy.”In her statement, Maditla says she found the father of two of her children with another woman.

"I went back home, I sat in the taxi emotional and crying I saw a hawker selling rat poison I took R10 and bought poison with the intention to kill myself and my children.”

 

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