Durban - Aspiring Pietermaritzburg model, Thenjiwe Griffiths, was on Thursday granted leave to appeal against her conviction and sentence for the murder of her husband.
The 32-year-old unemployed woman was convicted in the Pietermaritzburg High Court last year of murder and sentenced to life in prison.
She was also given 15 years for robbery with aggravating circumstances.
Retired Richards Bay engineer Allan Griffiths, 60, was murdered in 2006. Thenjiwe, who was 25 at the time, maintained her innocence throughout the trial.
Thenjiwe and Griffiths had met at a club where prostitutes touted for business and were married in April 2005.
Soon afterwards, he wanted a divorce because she was abusive and assaulted him.
The court found Thenjiwe had set up a “hijacking” near Winterton during which her husband was killed.
She later told police they had been hijacked and that the hijackers had tried to rape her.
But Judge Rishi Seegobin found that her version was fabricated and concluded she was a cold, calculating killer, who used her elderly husband for his money and when that ran out, he was of no use to her.
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