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Durban - Former Blue Bulls player Phindile Joseph Ntshongwana will have to wait until December to hear his sentence for axing four people to death.
Ntshongwana was due to be sentenced by Judge Irfaan Khalil in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Durban on Wednesday.
His lawyer Themba Mjoli, however, argued successfully for a postponement so a clinical psychologist and a criminologist could testify in mitigation of sentencing.
Khalil postponed the matter to 15 December.
On Friday Khalil convicted Ntshongwana of four counts of murder, two of attempted murder, one of kidnapping, one of rape, and one of assault.
Ntshongwana murdered Thembelenkosini Cebekhulu in Montclair on 20 March 2011, Paulos Hlongwa two days later, Simon Ngidi the following day, and an unidentified man sometime that week. All were hacked to death with an axe.
He raped and kidnapped a woman in November 2010.
He tried to kill two men, one in Umlazi on 21 March 2011, and the other in Lamontville on 23 March.
