DIE STELLA-MOORDE

208pp., illus., paperback, Pretoria, 2021

In 2020 Xander Bylsma was handed two life sentences for the murders of his ex-girlfriend Sharnelle Hough and her best friend Marna Engelbrecht in their school hostel in Stella, North West province, in 2018. He was 19 years old at the time of the murders.

Susan Cilliers is a reporter for Beeld and Netwerk24 in North West province. She is the author of Huis van Gruwels: my 16 jaar in die Springs-hel.