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The Netflix show, about a teenage boy arrested for the murder of a classmate, became a runaway hit and national talking point earlier this year.

When Cowen was arrested he was searched and found to have another kitchen knife in his pocket, the prosecution said.

Their sentence comes nearly six years after they were arrested when local authorities raided a factory in Johannesburg and found 91 Malawian nationals, 37 of them children, working in appalling conditions.

Police then said several suspects had been arrested following what appeared to be a "targeted and predetermined" assassination.

Linehan was arrested on suspicion of an alleged criminal offence of inciting violence in relation to posts on X, rather than a non-crime hate incident.