Life sentence for farmer who fed ex-worker to lions

A white farmer was sentenced to life in prison today on a murder conviction for throwing one of his former black workers into a lion enclosure.

A white farmer was sentenced to life in prison today on a murder conviction for throwing one of his former black workers into a lion enclosure.

Mark Scott- Crossley and one of his employees were convicted in April of the January 2004 killing of Nelson Chisale in a case that shocked a nation which is still coming to grip with its apartheid past.

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