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.
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.