{"id":25448,"date":"2018-12-13T20:22:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T20:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25448"},"modified":"2018-12-13T20:22:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T20:22:38","slug":"south-african-cannibal-case-men-get-life-sentences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25448","title":{"rendered":"South African &#8216;cannibal case&#8217; men get life sentences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Johannesburg (CNN)<\/cite>When a South African traditional healer wandered into a police station last year and told officers he was &#8220;tired of eating human flesh,&#8221; the police struggled to believe his morbid claim. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">That changed when Nino Mbatha, who was also carrying a bag containing a human leg and hand, took the officers to a house in the town of Estcourt, in KwaZulu-Natal province, where more body parts were found.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The case, which has horrified South Africans and been dubbed locally the &#8220;cannibal case,&#8221; came to a close on Wednesday when Mbatha, 33, and Lungisani Magubane, 32, were given life sentences for murder, AFP reports. A third man was acquitted. All three men denied the charges, according to local media.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg (CNN)When a South African traditional healer wandered into a police station last year and told officers he was &#8220;tired of eating human flesh,&#8221; the police struggled to believe his morbid claim. That changed when Nino Mbatha, who was also carrying a bag containing a human leg and hand, took the officers to a house&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}