‘Lion killer’ due in court again

Scott-Crossley is accused of assaulting fellow inmate, Jacobus Cordier (40), at the Barberton Maximum Security Prison on 9 December 2006, says a report on the News24 site. Cordier suffered head injuries and had to be released from prison because he was left partially paralysed following the assault. Scott-Crossley has already pleaded not guilty to the charge. He has also successfully appealed against his life sentence for the murder of Oupa Chisale, whose skull and some gnawed bones were all that remained after the body was thrown to three white lions in January 2004. Three judges in the Supreme Court of Appeal reduced Scott-Crossley\'s sentence to five years on a lesser charge of being an accessory, after the fact, to murder. Full report on the News24 site