Kyle Ruiters fancied himself as a serial killer and a “charming psychopath”.
Kyle Ruiters, the man who murdered and dismembered his neighbour Lynette Volschenk, did not have an easy start in life.
However, Western Cape High Court Judge Robert Henney found that his challenging childhood was no compelling reason to show mercy when sentencing Ruiters to life in prison.
In handing down the sentence, Henney also ordered that Ruiters’ entire court record, including the photographs of what he did to Volschenk, be sent to the Department of Correctional Services so that its psychiatrists and psychologists could determine how they would handle him as a prisoner.
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