Pretoria – A Pretoria geologist arranged his ex-wife’s funeral hours after her body was discovered, the High Court in Pretoria heard on Wednesday.

Cobus Prinsloo is accused of hiring his gardener to murder his ex-wife, Cordelia.

Cordelia’s sister Angie le Roux told the court the family was surprised to learn her sister was still on her former husband’s funeral policy and that he had already arranged the burial.

Prinsloo pleaded not guilty to the murder. He denied claims by Cordelia’s self-confessed killer, gardener Lucas Moloi, that Prinsloo had offered him R50 000 and a house to murder his ex-wife.

Moloi is presently serving a jail sentence of 18 years. He admitted hitting Cordelia twice on the back of the head with a shovel and burying her body in a flower bed.

Le Roux testified the couple continued sharing a smallholding after their acrimonious divorce, even though they both obtained protection orders against each other.

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