1.   If found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder and setting off destructive explosions as part of a terrorist plot, all six could get life jail terms.

2.   A suspended death sentence is normally commuted to life jail after the two years.

3.   Among them will be an ex-monk who has had his death sentence for the murder last December of a British woman reduced to life jail.

4.   But it commuted his death sentence to life jail.

5.   The suspects face life jail terms if found guilty because the three murders took place before a law last year restored capital punishment for rape.

6.   Last year, Colonel Eugene de Kock, a former head of Vaakplaas, also made confessions before being given several concurrent life jail terms.

7.   Sentencing Streeton to the maximum penalty of life jail, Justice Margaret White said she would make no recommendation for parole, leaving that to prison authorities.