Man who killed his brother and girlfriend’s father sentenced to life

A 32-year-old man who killed his brother in 2019 and then the father of his girlfriend in February 2021, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the high court, sitting in Upington. National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Mojalefa Senokoatsane said Christoffel Samuel Irion fatally stabbed his brother, Jacques Jacobus Irion, on November 2 2019 after an argument because he refused to take off his shoes. “Christoffel took a knife and stabbed his brother in the back. The brother ran out of the house to seek help and when a neighbour tried to intervene, he was also stabbed in the…