THE fiancée of a Royal Marine brutally killed in a vicious assault in South Africa says she is “satisfied” after his attacker was found guilty of his death.

Louise Scott is satisfied because it means she will be able to tell her young daughter when she grows up that the man responsible for killing her father wsa brought to justice.

Blayne Shepard was found guilty of culpable homicide – equivalent to manslaughter in the British justice system – at Durban Regional Court on Monday, although he was not deemed guilty of the murder of Brett Williams, 29, of Bishops Lydeard, where he is buried in the churchyard.

Brett, a former Royal Marine with Norton Manor Camp-based 40 Commando, was kicked to death at King’s Park Rugby stadium, but magistrate Trevor Levitt rule that Shepard, 25, had not intended to kill him.

After the case, Miss Scott, the mother of Brett’s six-year-old daughter Lailah, said: “I have to thank the judge for seeing through it all and arriving at a just verdict.

“I am satisfied with the verdict.

“I’ve always maintained that it was irrelevant what happened to the accused because nothing gives Brett his life back, but now I have something to tell Lailah when she is older – that the man responsible didn’t get away with leaving her without her father all her life.

“It is a comfort to me and I know it will be of comfort to her when the time is right.

Brett was working on a ship defending other vessels from pirate attacks which was docked in Durban at the time of his death on March 23, 2013.

Shepard’s brother Kyle and their friends Andries van der Merwe and Dustin van Wyk with initially charged with Brett’s murder, but they were acquitted last year.

During the trial of Shepard, who will be sentenced on August 27, a security official said he saw him kicking and “stomping” on Brett.