Sizzlers killer could be released soon

It’s been 17 years since the Sizzlers massacre.

On January 2003 ten men were tied up and gagged before their throats were slit and shot execution-style, at a gay massage parlour in Sea Point.

Judge Nathan Erasmus who presided over the trial called it ‘the worst massacre Cape Town and the country has ever seen’.

Waiter Adam Woest and taxi driver, Trevor Theys, were handed nine life sentences.

Theys died of a heart attack in 2008 but Woest is now 45-years old and is eligible for parole.

He falls into a category of prisoners, who received life sentences before October 2004.

These prisoners become eligible for parole after serving just 12 and a half years of a life sentence, if they meet specific criteria.

As part of that process the Department of Correctional Services has started reaching out to the victims' families.

Among them is Leigh Visser, who now lives in Canada. She was just 14 years old, when her brother,

Warren, was killed in the Sizzlers massacre. Visser says she was devasted to hear the news.