Mmabatho, South Africa: A white South African teenager who had carried out racially-motivated murders in Mmabatho was sentenced to 169 years in prison by a court here in North West province.
Nineteen-year-old Johan Nel had killed four blacks, including a three-month-old baby in the January 14 shooting in a shantytown near Swartruggens.
The court charged him with attempted murder and illegal possession of firearm and ammunition in connection with the shootings.
Nel's defence lawyer however argued that his client was angered over the frequent murders of white farmers and small landowners since the end of apartheid in 1994 and feared that his family could face the same fate.
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