Who Were Rachel and Rodney Saunders? British Botanists Killed While Collecting Rare Seeds in South Africa
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Who Were Rachel and Rodney Saunders? British Botanists Killed While Collecting Rare Seeds in South Africa
A Durban court handed down life sentences this week to three people convicted of kidnapping, robbing and murdering the internationally renowned botanist couple in 2018.
The British botanist couple disappeared while collecting native plants near the Ngoye forest in eastern South Africa
Killers of British couple in South Africa sentenced to life
Three people have been sentenced to life in prison by a South African court for the kidnapping, robbing and murder of a British couple in February 2018. Rachel Saunders, 64, and her husband Rodney, 73, were kidnapped while in the Ngoye Forest, 150km (93 miles) north of the port city of Durban. The British botanists had been collecting indigenous plants and seeds, before their bodies were found days later in a river. Saffydeen Aslam del Vecchio, …
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