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 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - In a case that shocked South Africa for its brutality, a white farmer was sentenced to life in prison Friday for the murder of one of his black workers, who was attacked with machetes, tied up and thrown into a lion enclosure, where he was devoured.
The trial brought impassioned protests from demonstrators who saw the killing as another racial attack in a country still grappling with its apartheid past.
Many in the courtroom in the northern town of Phalaborwa whistled and cheered in approval when Mark Scott-Crossley, 37, was led out after the sentencing.
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