Comprehensive work by the Milnerton SAPS Serious and Violent Crimes unit led to the conviction and sentencing by the Cape Town Regional Court of three men accused of separate murder offences, and one accused of robbery with aggravating circumstances.
The first man, aged 21, was convicted of a murder he had committed in Joe Slovo on Tuesday 14 February 2017. The accused was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment of which two years were suspended for five years, on condition that the he is not convicted of any other violent crime during the period of suspension.
The second man, aged 27, accused of robbery with aggravating circumstances which was committed in Dunoon on Friday 21 April 2017, received a sentence of 10 years imprisonment of which two years were suspended for five years. This on condition that he is not convicted of any crime of which dishonesty and or violence against the person of another is an element, committed during the period of suspension.
The third man, aged 36, accused of a murder he committed in Dunoon on Monday 04 September 2017, was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment of which four years were suspended for a period of five years. This on condition that the accused is not convicted of murder, assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm, common assault, robbery, or an attempt thereof, culpable homicide, public violence, the offence of pointing a firearm, air gun, or air pistol or the contravention of any law.
The accused may be found guilty of the offence so proved, committed during the period of suspension and to which the accused is sentenced to a term of direct imprisonment without the option of a fine. It was further ordered that in terms of section 103 of Act 60 of 2000 the accused is declared unfit to possess a firearm.
The unit went the extra mile to apprehend the fourth accused, a man aged 45, who, after stabbing his girlfriend to death in Dunoon on 5 July 2014, moved to Eastern Cape permanently.
The Serious and Violent Crimes unit managed to trace him and bring the accused back to Cape Town, to face the court. The accused was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment of which five years were suspended for a period of five years, on condition that the accused is not convicted of murder, culpable homicide, assault with the intent to do grievous bodily harm (GBH), robbery or attempted robbery. The accused was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment with no option of a fine. It was further ordered that in terms of section 103 of Act 60 of 2000 the accused is declared unfit to possess a firearm.
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