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FINALLY I CAN GRIEVE

AFTER years of heartache and uncertainty she felt a sense of justice when the boy who killed her teenage son was sentenced.

Yet Jorina Pretorius’ relief is tinged with apprehension as the boy’s defence team are planning to appeal the sentence, threatening to destroy the fragile sense of peace she’s only just begun to find.

The Pinetown regional court in Kwa-Zulu-Natal recently sentenced Durban teen Ryleigh Naidoo to five years in jail for the 2022 murder of Jorina’s 15-year-old son, Jayden Glazer.

Naidoo was convicted of killing his schoolmate in a fight over a girl.

The court heard how the two boys, once friends, fell out and started competing for popularity and girls and arguing

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