The widow of a British man murdered by raiders at his home in South Africa described how he was "shot for a cell phone".
Father-of-six Fred Picton-Turbervill, 46, sat passively on the floor pleading with the gunmen not to hurt his children, when he was killed.
The two men burst into his home in an affluent Waterkloof Ridge suburb of Pretoria, the country''s capital, on Saturday.
His wife, Ursula Picton-Turbervill, 41, described the violent break-in in which her husband was murdered in front of her two eldest daughters.
Mr Picton-Turbervill, whose parents live in Bridgend, south Wales, ran a furniture business in Burnley before leaving for South Africa in 2003.
After the raid, there was a delay before calling the police because the home's landline was cut and their mobile phones were stolen.
Mrs Picton-Turbervill said her husband's body will be cremated at a local church this week after which his ashes would be flown back to the UK to be scattered in Wales.
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