A convict serving a three-year prison sentence for common robbery appeared in Alexandra Magistrates’ Court recently after being summoned for an armed robbery he committed with an accomplice in 2000.
The accused’s accomplice stood trial in 2002 and was sentenced to 15 years in prison, while the accused disappeared the same year while on bail before his sentencing.
The two accused robbed four men they met walking in Bramley one early February morning in 2000.
They robbed the victims of wallets and wristwatches at gunpoint and then ran away. Luckily, the victims reported the incident to police who were patrolling nearby. The police followed and apprehended the accused in Marlboro after they had jumped over a wall and into a cluster of shacks.
The stolen items and firearm used in the robbery were recovered from them.
