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      South African Man Kills Designer for Criticizing Home
      Tue Jun 15, 2004 07:20 AM ET 


      JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African man told a court how he hacked to 
      death his interior designer because she criticized his decor, local 
      newspapers reported on Tuesday. 
      Jose da Silva, 37, pleaded guilty to murdering 47-year-old Beatrice 
      Harrowyn in 2001 after inviting her to his new house in a classy suburb 
      north of Johannesburg. 
      "We went through the house and I told her what I wanted. She did not make 
      any nice comments about my place so I went to my garage and fetched an 
      axe," the Star newspaper reported him as saying. 
      "I killed her because she reminded me of an old school teacher whom I 
      hated very much." 
      Da Silva told the Pretoria High Court that voices in his head had 
      instructed him to become a serial killer, the Star said. 
      He said he wanted to be caught before killing any more people and could 
      not understand why it took police six weeks to catch him after he left 
      clues for them to follow "like Hansel and Gretel." 
      "It should have taken police two days. It was their job to arrest me. I 
      pay taxes and their salary," the newspaper reported him as saying. 
      Da Silva is due to be sentenced on Tuesday, newspapers said. 

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