News24 reports that a 28-year-old Johannesburg man who stole R50,000 and two laptops from his employer and then faked a robbery has been sentenced to six months in prison.

On Monday, the Booysens Magistrate's Court found Neverson Banda from Malawi guilty of opening a false case of house robbery. On 28 June this year, Banda's employer asked him to guard his Oakdene house in the south of Johannesburg. The following day, Banda's employer arrived home to find him on the bathroom floor with his hands tied and his mouth shut with sticky tape. Banda told police he had been asleep when four suspects forced their way into his room. He claimed one of them pointed a firearm at him while his accomplices ransacked the house and took an undisclosed amount of money and two laptops. But, the investigating officer became suspicious when inspecting the crime scene. Banda later admitted his guilt and told the police he had fabricated the robbery to take money to go to Malawi to see his father, who was terminally ill. During the court case, the employer testified that in April he had caught Banda stealing from him, but had forgiven him and not opened a case at the time.

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