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News24 reports that several persons found guilty of killing police officers in the Eastern Cape, Free State and KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) between 2012 and 2017 have been handed hefty prison sentences for their crimes.
Nine police killers were sentenced to a combined nine life sentences, while two were given a total of 32 years imprisonment. Six accused were recently convicted of killing Eastern Cape Warrant Officer Mawethu Singana and a motorist in 2012. The accused were sentenced on 7 June by the Mthatha High Court to three life sentences each for the murders of Sinanga, a community member and their accomplice who died at the scene. They were sentenced to a further 15 years for each of the remaining 37 counts, culminating in a combined 555 years of imprisonment. The sentences will not run concurrently. In respect of the murder of Warrant Officer Z Nyakaza in the Eastern Cape while off duty in October 2016, one of killers was sentenced to life imprisonment while the second accused was given 20 years in prison. Both accused in the fatal stabbing of Warrant Officer TN Mkhize in Umzinto in KZN in October 2017 were sentenced to life imprisonment. Sergeant KG Lefosa was killed in Bloemspruit in Free State in April 2017 while off duty and the accused in that case was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
- Read the full otignal of Kamva Somdyala’s report in the above regard at News24
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