The case

Prosecutors claimed that Dina was angry that her boyfriend had fathered a child with Natasha Norton and wanted to spare him the shame of having a child out of wedlock.

Prosecutor said that Dina hired four men Sipho Mfazwe, Mongezi Bobotyane, Zanethemba Gwada and Bonginkosi Sigenu and began plotting the murder.

Initially the four were to gain entry to the house by pretending to deliver a telephone directory but they were not succesful.

Dina the supplied them with a waybill and they were told to pretend to be delivery men delivering a parcel and this way gain entry to the house

The night before the murder the Nortons received a call from a white woman telling them they would receive a package.

The four men visited the house where the murder took place twice before going there on June 15 2005 in Mfazwe's minibus taxi to deliver "a parcel and a paper that the white woman gave us"

Everyone except Sigenu had knives. They gained entrance to the home when the babies uncle Dylan Norton opened the door to sign the waybill for the package. They proceeded to bound and gag Dylan as well as the babies nanny Thobeka.

 Bonginkosi Sigenu testimony in court later brought the gruesome details of the murder into sharp focus.

Sigenu told the packed court that fellow accused Mongezi Bobotyane had put his finger in the four month olds' mouth and then cut her throat.

He had been told to take the child from the domestic and go strangle it in a room. The child started playing on the bed and reminded him of his little brother and he could not do it.

When Bobotyane walked in and asked why I had not done it, I told him to do it but only when I was out of the house.

"In the taxi, Bobotyane showed us a bloodied knife that he had used to kill the child." The baby had been stabbed in the neck and left to die with the nanny and uncle bound and gagged. The men left with a safe containing a firearm disguise the murder as an armed robbery.

Judge Basheer Waglay told a packed courtroom that he accepted expert evidence that Dina Rodrigues s  thumbprints and handwriting were found on the waybill left at the scene.
Telkom records used as evidence in court reveal that seven calls were made to the Norton house from Dina's workplace, a novelty-toy company in Milnerton, where she obtained the blank waybill.