Watch video: Brian Treasurer’s farewell to his family

Watch video here of murderer Brian Treasurer saying goodbye to his family after he was convicted of killing Dr Bhavish Sewram.

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Showing no emotion, convicted murdered Brian Treasurer, walked casually from the dock down the stairs to the holding cells before being transported to the Westville prison. As he walked down the stairs, he bade a quick farewell to his family, especially two young men. Pointing his finger at them with a stern “behave boys”, Treasurer hugged his girlfriend before disappearing down the steps.

Treasurer, 55, and Mfaniseni Nxumalo, 37, were found guilty on Thursday of Dr Bhavish Sewram’s his murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Outside the court-room, Sewram’s widow, Yuvadia, herself an attorney, wiped away tears of sorrow and relief.

“I am grateful that these monsters were convicted for the hideous crimes that they committed. I call them monsters because what they did was for greed and money!” said an emotional Sewram.

Sewram’s parents, who have been present at court daily, welcomed the ruling.

“It’s a painful journey and we welcome the outcome. Our faith in the judicial system has now been restored,” said Sewram’s parents, Parmanand (Doc) and Nalini Sewram.

Judge Anton van Zyl found that there definitely was a “principal” – either Soni or someone else, who had ordered Sewram’s murder and had offered Treasurer and Nxumalo monetary reward to facilite Sewram’s death.

On September 28, the trial of businessman Rajivee Soni, the alleged mastermind of Sewram’s murder,

resumes in the Pietermaritzburg High Court, before a different judge.

Soni, represented by well-known attorney Naren Sangham, was fingered during this trial as the “friend” on whose behalf Treasurer had been asked to have Sewram killed as “the doctor was in love with his wife”. Both Nxumalo and self-confessed hitman Sabelo Dlamini had given evidence that shortly after the killing, Treasurer had called someone to say that the job had been done.

Judge van Zyl said he found Treasurer’s explanation that he had “accidentally” placed a call to Soni from his car on the night the doctor was killed, was “highly improbable”.

In convicting the two men, Judge van Zyl questioned why the Nxumalo and Dlamini would have taken along a witness as they knew they were going to commit murder. He said that the probablity strongly suggests that Nxumalo went with Dlamini to ensure the job was done.

“Dlamini was instructed on what to do and the picking up arrangements were made by Treasurer and Nxumalo,” said Judge van Zyl.

He said both men deserved lie sentences as neither had shown any remorse, and had killed Sewram after careful planning and pre-meditation.

The men were each also given an additional 15 years imprisonment for “joint” possession of the gun used to shoot the doctor, which runs concurrently with the life terms.

Treasurer and Nxumalo’s leave to appeal their convictions and sentences were both refused as Judge van Zyl said another court was unlikely to come to different conclusions. This effectively halted Treasurer’s ambition of obtaining bail pending the outcome of his appeal.