When controversial local gun enthusiast James Thorne was peppered with seven bullets at his farm in the Eastern Cape town of Lady Grey one Friday afternoon, it was the beginning of a huge drama.
Then his 19-year-old daughter, Sweeny-pai Thorne — the product of his marriage to a Chinese woman – — walked into the police station at Aliwal North 80km away to claim she had pulled the trigger.
Quote from Micki Pistorius – Fatal Females
“The case of Sweeny-Pai Thorne is one of the saddest in the legal and criminal history of South Africa. From the time she was in diapers, this young girl had been denied a normal life.”
SHOWNOTES:
Host: Nicole Engelbrecht
Producer: Nicole Engelbrecht
Music: Snippet from Prime Circle’s Evidence
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