Courts show no mercy to criminals

The provincial Police welcomed the sentencing of several criminals who appeared before various courts earlier this week.
Provincial Police Spokesperson Moatshe Ngoepe said acting Provincial Commissioner Jan Scheepers commended the teams of detectives who would stop at nothing to ensure a successful conviction.
In the Nebo Regional Court, Moshoeshoe Tshepho Sefako was sentenced to life imprisonment for the rape of a seven-year-old girl committed at Ga-Mokwete Village outside Jane Furse in 2010.
The accused lured the victim to his room where he raped her. She reported the incident to her mother immediately afterwards where after the Police was summoned and Sefako arrested at his home, according to Ngoepe.
The Mokopane Magistrate’s Court handed down a consolidated jail term of 60 years to four house robbers. Brian Dineo Mashakoe, Mathibela Matlaila, Malose Billy Kekana and Jan Neo Sethosa were sentenced to 15 years behind bars each on charges of house robbery.
The four were involved in a house robbery in Chroom Park, Mokopane on 8 June last year after poisoning the house owner’s dogs. The owner was tied-up with cables and assaulted before he was robbed of personal items worth R187 000, Ngoepe said.
Lastly, the Limpopo High Court sentenced Kabisi Mojela to 17 years imprisonment for murder and arson committed in 2014.
Ngoepe indicated that Mojela was found guilty of burning Tuni Nyalungu to death in his house in the Burgersfort area in April 2014.

Story: RC Myburgh
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