Commonwealth judges uphold Botswana death sentence

A panel of Commonwealth judges in Botswana has unanimously upheld a death sentence imposed on a white South African woman found guilty of murder. The woman, Marietta Bosch, will become the first white woman to be executed in Botswana, in a case dubbed "Botswana's White Mischief" after a book about fatal intrigue among the white community in colonial Kenya A British judge on the panel ,Timothy Aguda, said Mrs Bosch was a despicable character who had planned the murder of her former best friend Ria Wolmerans in order to marry her husband. Mrs Bosch is due to hang unless there is an intervention by the President -- an action which a BBC correspondent in the country describes as unlikely. (From the newsroom of the BBC World Service)