Mark Harvey served with two life sentences

JOHANNESBURG - Mark Harvey has been sentenced to two life terms for the murder of his girlfriend, Marishka Davids and her friend, Zakkiyah Rayman.

Harvey was sentenced to a further seven years for arson and five years for housebreaking.

He doused the women in petrol and set them alight in February last year.

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Rayman died seven days after the attack, while Davids died on the operating table.

The sentences will run concurrently.

Judge Mohamed Ismail described the murders as monstrous and inhumane.