This couple were told their daughter had killed herself – now her lover is behind bars for murder

The news was beyond shocking, beyond comprehension. Her beloved daughter, the mother of her grandchildren, was gone – and she’d taken her own life.

But how could it be? Her child would never leave her children. This was the question that kept haunting Estelle Labuschagne after Jaco Steyl, the man her daughter, Nadia, had lived with for the past six years, called to tell her the terrible news.

He said he’d found Nadia hanging from burglar bars in the bathroom of the home they shared with her three children in Weltevreden Park, Roodepoort.