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Raster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-04 09:35 AM
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South African Man Kills Designer for Criticizing Home
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African man told a court how he hacked to death his interior designer because she criticized his decor, local newspapers reported on Tuesday.

Jose da Silva, 37, pleaded guilty to murdering 47-year-old Beatrice Harrowyn in 2001 after inviting her to his new house in a classy suburb north of Johannesburg.

"We went through the house and I told her what I wanted. She did not make any nice comments about my place so I went to my garage and fetched an axe," the Star newspaper reported him as saying.

"I killed her because she reminded me of an old school teacher whom I hated very much."

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=1&u=/nm/20040615/od_nm/crime_safrica_dc
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mark11727 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-04 09:45 AM
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1. Almost saw the same thing happen on Trading Spaces once...
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