‘My whole life came crashing down at that stage’ WITH his eyes downcast, he comes shuffling into the office of Sevontein Prison in Pietermaritzburg, painfully thin in his baggy orange overalls. He reaches forward to greet us with icy hands.
“Thank you for coming,” Hardus Lotter says in his deep voice.
The 29-year-old Durbanite sits at the table and folds his pale, bony hands, almost as if in prayer. His skin is in bad condition and his lower lip is split on the inside.
In a crime that rocked the country in 2008, Hardus (then 20) and his older sister, Nicolette (then 26), killed their parents, Johnnie and Riekie Lotter, at their home in Westville, Durban.
The mastermind of the murder was found to be Nicolette’s fiancé, Mathew Naidoo, the…
