A British couple living in Cape Town were savagely killed by a gang in South Africa who threw their bodies out to crocodiles shortly after the pair had been interviewed by BBC for the show, 'Gardeners' World', a court heard. Married couple, Rod Saunders, 74 and wife, Rachel, 63 devoted much of their life to studying plants and they would spend six months a year exploring remote mountains and forests for rare native seeds to sell on their popular global online business, 'Silverhill seeds.'
The British botanists were brutally battered to death by a South African gang who were furious at the elderly couple for pocketing the sought after seeds from indigenous nature reserves and selling them on. Their bodies were disposed of in sleeping bags and thrown into crocodile infested waters, the Mirror reports.
Their remains were pulled out of the water by fisherman days later. They left their home in Cape Town in their Toyota Land Cruiser on February 5, 2018, with a BBC TV documentary film crew.
