Suraj Kumar has been handed a double life sentence after investigators pieced together clues to determine that he used a spectacled cobra (also known as an Indian cobra) as a murder weapon.
Snake handlers attending to a call at a house in Pinetown, Durban, were shocked to find three Mozambique spitting cobras on the premises.
Kruger Park gets many plaudits for the Big Five that roam around, but sometimes the biggest battles play out between unlikely adversary.