Decor to die for

JOHANNESBURG – A South African man told a court how he hacked to death his interior designer because she criticized his decor, local newspapers reported yesterday.

Jose da Silva, 37, pleaded guilty to murdering 47-year-old Beatrice Harrowyn in 2001 after inviting her to his new house in a classy suburb north of Johannesburg. “We went through the house and I told her what I wanted.She did not make any nice comments about my place so I went to my garage and fetched an axe,” the Star newspaper reported him as saying.”I killed her because she reminded me of an old school teacher whom I hated very much.”Da Silva told the Pretoria high court that voices in his head had instructed him to become a serial killer, the Star said.- Nampa-Reuters”We went through the house and I told her what I wanted.She did not make any nice comments about my place so I went to my garage and fetched an axe,” the Star newspaper reported him as saying.”I killed her because she reminded me of an old school teacher whom I hated very much.”Da Silva told the Pretoria high court that voices in his head had instructed him to become a serial killer, the Star said.- Nampa-Reuters