Mathew Naidoo, a man who manipulated his former girlfriend and her brother to murder their parents, has been received a double life sentence for his part in the crime. 
A judge in South Africa has found siblings Nicolette and Hardus Lotter, along with Nicolette’s boyfriend Mathew Naidoo, guilty of the brutal murder of the Lotter parents. 
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A brother and sister on trial for the murder of their parents claim the girl’s boyfriend, Matthew Naidoo, put the two under a powerful spell. During the trial of Nicolette and Hardus Lotter, and her boyfriend, Matthew Naidoo, for the murder of the siblings’ parents a court in South Africa heard the motive for the double murder was to get a share of the inheritance. A Durban man described by his co-accused as the “Son of God” had manipulated the Lotter siblings and was behind the planning of their parents’ double murder, the Pinetown Regional Court heard today. 
Afrikaans teacher Riekie Lotter, 52, often boasted at school about her children. Even as she lay dying on Saturday afternoon with knife wounds to her chest, she told her children she loved them. Brother and sister Hardus and Nicolette Lotter, who made a brief court appearance on Wednesday charged with the murder of their parents, had been part of a religious sect and had been influenced by Nicolette’s boyfriend and co-accused, Mathew Naidoo, who had claimed he was “God’s messenger”, sources close to the investigation said on Wednesday.