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Business Rameez Patel appears before the High Court in Polokwane.
Limpopo prominent businessman Rameez Patel has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife at the Polokwane High Court in Limpopo.
Patel shot dead Fatima Patel in 2015 at their house in Nirvana, Polokwane and blamed it on intruders.
Judge Joseph Raulinga said that the murder was planned.
Judge Raulinga also sentenced Patel to five years’ imprisonment on a charge of possession of an unlicensed firearm and three years for possession of ammunition.
“Mr Patel has been convicted of the killing of his wife. And I can take you now to the photos to the album. I have been looking at this album. If you look at the scene of the crime. There was blood all over. The accused targeted nothing else but the head. So, this murder was horrendous. It was cruel. It was terrible.”
Rameez Patel has been slapped with a life imprisonment sentence at the Polokwane High Court for the murder of his wife Fatima Patel. #sabcnews pic.twitter.com/I59Fdn2CP2
— Katlego Nyoni (@Katlegonyoni_) December 19, 2025
