Seas pleads guilty to murder

Zenobia Seas, 32, this morning pleaded guilty to a count of of murder and that of defeating or obstructing the course of justice. In a statement signed on 7 August, the young mother admitted to killing her daugher, Ava, 2, on 26 September 2016 near Henties Bay by suffocating the child. A visibly upset Seas, who was crying unabatedly, also admitted trying to set the car alight in which she and the body of her daughter were.
Judge Christie Liebenberg of the High Court in Windhoek accepted her plea.
Submissions for sentencing are set to start this afternoon.
FRED GOEIEMAN