An Indian-origin man in South Africa has been sentenced to three life terms in jail for brutally murdering his wife and two children with a mace.

Mogamberry Rajan Kandasamy is from sprawling Indian township of Chatsworth near Durban. Rajan managed to escape death penalty only because it has been outlawed constitutionally in the post-apartheid democratic order.

The 41-year-old was sentenced three life sentences for killing his wife, 41 year-old Versham his son 17-year-old Megandran and 18-year-old daughter Melarisa.

In 2013 Rajan attacked the family, when he came to know that his wife wanted a divorce to marry another man.

At the trail Rajan confessed during the trial that the murdered his wife and two children with a mace.

"While she was on the floor, I hit her twice with the Hanuman stick on her head. On the third strike the stick broke,” he said.

Captain Sathisiven Naidu said Rajan had made the confession of his own accord, although he claimed he had been coerced into doing this.

"I'm here to tell you what I did. I want to tell you the truth and come clean, it is eating me inside," Rajan told to the police two days after the incident.

Rajan initially pleaded that he was not guilty, by claiming that he had no memory of the attack or evidence by a state witness, Ashley Ganesh.

Ganesh found Rajan wandering in a park nearby the family home.

After observation at a mental health institution following Rajan’s amnesia claim, he was declared fit to stand trial.

Earlier in the investigation Police ruled out any possibility of the murders resulted due to an attempted robbery at the house, as alleged by Rajan, who also claimed that he might have been drugged by the robbers.

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