Three guilty of killing chef - 17 years later

Three men have been convicted of killing Thandiwe Betty Ketani‚ a chef at a popular Johannesburg restaurant‚ nearly 17 years after she disappeared, says a TimesLIVE report. Carrington Laughton was found guilty in the Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) last week of kidnapping and murdering Ketani‚ while brothers and former policemen David and Carel Ranger were found guilty of culpable homicide and kidnapping. Laughton was also convicted of the attempted kidnapping of another woman who worked with Ketani‚ Ruth Mncube. Ketani worked as a chef at Rosebank Thai restaurant Cranks when she disappeared in May 1999. There was no trace of the Queenstown-born woman's whereabouts until 13 years later‚ when a letter penned by Laughton and confessing to Ketani's murder was discovered hidden in a Johannesburg house. The motive for her murder may have been trouble with her employers at the restaurant, says the report.