It was a story that shocked South Africa. The murder of six-month-old baby Jordan in June 2005. A 24-year-old middle-class white woman, Dina Rodrigues, had paid a group of poor black men to kill the baby because she was jealous that her then boyfriend had fathered the child with a mixed-race woman. Rodrigues had paid the group of four men who posed as delivery men just 10,000 South African rand (€500) to murder the infant.  The horrific story gripped South Africa – not only because of the terrible nature of the crime but also because it shone a spotlight on…

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