Grim details of Bethelsdorp woman’s murder emerge as ex-husband jailed

A decade after former schoolteacher Johnny Baartman was acquitted of raping a pupil, he has been jailed for the murder of his ex-wife.

The murder weapon? An old Vodka bottle and the handle of a pickaxe...

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