‘Ice’ gets 84-year jail term
Drug dealer Ivan "Ice" Jacobs will spend the rest of his life behind bars for the brutal killing of his estranged wife.
|||Cape Town - Convicted murderer and drug dealer Ivan “Ice” Jacobs will spend the rest of his life in prison.
The man once referred to as “the biggest drug dealer” in Woodlands, Mitchells Plain, was sentenced to life in prison for the brutal murder of his estranged wife, Carmen Jacobs.
Jacobs, 34, got an additional 84 years for charges including assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm, kidnapping, dealing in heroin, illegal possession of ammunition and dealing in tik.
Carmen, a mother of four young children, was found beaten and stabbed to death inside her Steenberg home in February 2014.
On Monday Western Cape High Court Acting Judge Stephen Koen said Carmen’s murder “was of the worst kind imaginable”.
“The murder of Mrs Jacobs was violent and cruel,” said Koen.
“My vocabulary cannot do justice to the horror of the scene depicted in the photographs of the murder scene and Mrs Jacobs’ dead body.
“[She] had been ferociously assaulted, stabbed multiple times and brutally beaten with an iron.
“She must have suffered enormously…her last few minutes on this earth must have been filled with terror and pain.”
Koen added that Jacobs, who still maintains his innocence, “poses a risk to the public who should be protected from him”.
“Mr Jacobs persists in his denial of any guilt. That being the case, questions of remorse or rehabilitation do not arise,” he adds.
The Acting Judge also focused on the brutal assault Carmen suffered over a period of three days in December 2013.
“She was degraded and humiliated by Mr Jacobs in a manner which defies belief.
“What makes matters worse, if that is possible, is that her husband was her assailant.
“It was the man who was meant to protect and care for her who betrayed her and caused her to suffer in such a terrible manner.”
Jacobs' mother left the courtroom in tears, screaming incomprehensibly as she was led out by relatives.
Meanwhile, Carmen’s twin sister, Candice Thomas, and other relatives watched from a distance.
“We are very satisfied, now we finally have closure,” a relative said.
Daily Voice
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