The Springbok Regional Court sentenced Devon Ovies, 33, dubbed the “Gordonia Butcher”, to an additional 18 years imprisonment for the attempted murder of his sister and theft of motor vehicle.
THE SPRINGBOK Regional Court sentenced Devon Ovies, 33, dubbed the “Gordonia Butcher”, to an additional 18 years imprisonment for the attempted murder of his sister and theft of motor vehicle.
Ovies is a repeat offender who was declared a state patient after he brutally murdered a colleague, Katrina Jagers, 50, at the living quarters of the hospital in Upington in 2015.
On December 20, 2021, Ovies was discharged from the mental institution in Kimberley and was booked out under the supervision of his 39-year-old sister, who resides in Concordia in Springbok.
On January 6, 2022, at 9pm, Ovies and his sister had an altercation with regard to his house arrest, which led him to stab her 15 times in the presence of her two young children.
He fled in her vehicle from her house in Concordia, but was arrested 30 minutes later in Okiep.
Ovies was sentenced to 14 years for attempted murder and four years for theft of motor vehicle on Friday, February 3. The sentences will run concurrently.
The provincial commissioner for the Northern Cape, Lieutenant-General Koliswa Otola, applauded Detective Sergeant Lulu Fortuin from Nababeep Detectives for her “hard work and relentless efforts” that resulted in Ovies “being put behind bars where he belongs as a perpetrator of gender-based violence and femicide”.
