FISH HOEK, South Africa, April 3 (UPI) -- A South African grandmother has been charged with hiring an unemployed man to kill her bridge teacher's wife.
Investigators say that 73-year-old Sophia de Villiers, who has lived in the quiet town of Fish Hoek near Cape Town for five years, offered 2,000 rand (about $330) for the killing, the Times of London reported. She allegedly hired one of a group of men who hang around the edge of town looking for odd jobs.
Nicky Wilson, wife of a retired railroad worker from Britain, was stabbed by a man who entered her home. De Villiers allegedly drove the attacker to the house, let him in with a key she had stolen, waited for him and then drove him away.
The attacker has not been caught. Wilson survived the stabbing.
De Villiers' marriage reportedly broke up after she moved to Fish Hoek. She and the Wilsons belonged to the same bowling and bridge clubs.
