Staff Reporter.
Convicted wife killer Jason Rohde handed himself over to police in Stellenbosch on Saturday.
Rohde’s lawyer Tony Mostert told News24 that Rohde was ready to hand himself over.
“He is ready to hand himself [over] in Stellenbosch. He is very disappointed with the court outcome. We are looking forward to [the] appeal of this judgment.”
In a video taken by Netwerk24, Rohde, dressed casually and clutching a water bottle, was seen walking into the Stellenbosch police station while a relative carried a tog bag.
The Western Cape High Court on Thursday dismissed Rohde’s application for an extension of his bail, pending his Constitutional Court appeal.
Rohde, 52, was convicted in 2019 of killing his wife, Susan, 47, in 2016.
Susan’s naked body was discovered on the bathroom floor of the Spier Wine Estate hotel room near Stellenbosch after a gala event of her husband’s business.
In October the Supreme Court of Appeal dismissed Rohde’s attempt to overturn his murder conviction for Susan’s 2016 death but reduced his sentence from 20 years’ imprisonment to 15.
Rohde, who maintained his innocence throughout the trial, was charged and convicted of the murder of his wife Susan Rohde and the staging of her murder as a suicide.
The state successfully argued he murdered her and staged a suicide.
He had also brought an application which he sought to have Judge Gayaat Salie-Hlophe who had dealt with the matter in trial to be recused as Rohde said Judge Salie-Hlophe was biased against him and the State had also opposed the recusal application.