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The accused intended to kill the deceased. Most of the shots were fired into the head.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, he added no correctional services facility could admit a quadriplegic person in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, during the mitigation of sentence, the acting deputy commissioner of healthcare services at the Department of Correctional Services, Mmamekhise Marriam Mabe, told Karam the country&#8217;s prisons were unsuitable for Mudau.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are not in a position to accommodate such an inmate. This is the position of the department nationally.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We must house all convicted inmates. We provide care to all inmates, given the mandate to provide primary healthcare to all inmates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The care required by people with quadriplegia is not primary healthcare. The type of patient will require the care provided by rehabilitation centres,&#8221; Mabe said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we have such an inmate, on admission, there is a probation of assessment comprising screening &#8230; we won&#8217;t be able to care for such a patient.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If he were to be sentenced to a custodial sentence for a day, he won&#8217;t [be comfortable] because of the care we provide.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our services will not be able to make provision for a quadriplegic inmate,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Mudau killed Monene in Tembisa Hospital&#8217;s parking lot on 9 February last year. He then turned the gun on himself.<\/p>\n<p>He spent months in hospital and was subsequently discharged into the care of the Tshwane Rehabilitation Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Mudau was diagnosed as a C5 quadriplegic &#8211; a spinal cord injury which results in paralysis of both the upper and lower body.<\/p>\n<p>He is now wheelchair-bound and unable to do anything for himself.<\/p>\n<p>News24 previously reported the two started a committed relationship in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Monene already had a child from a previous relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Mudau alleged due to the &#8220;excitement and infatuation&#8221; of his new relationship with Monene, he ended his relationship with the mother of his child.<\/p>\n<p>Monene&#8217;s uncle, Ephriam Monene, said the family was unhappy with the sentencing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ideally, we would&#8217;ve liked him to be in prison. The state was supposed to get a state doctor to confirm that he would never be able to walk again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are shocked, and we are disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mudau&#8217;s family has never come to pay their condolences. As Africans, we expected them to come, but they didn&#8217;t, which shows there was a purpose to what he did. Lebo&#8217;s children are in trauma.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are in the care of their grandparents now, but this has been a traumatic experience,&#8221; added Ephriam.<\/p>\n<p>He said while the sentencing outcomes were ones they did not expect, they were happy with the support they received from the media and organisations such as People Opposing Woman Abuse.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\">South-Africa<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. 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