Court frees convicted SA drug trafficker

Friday, July 10, 2015

The Gaborone High Court has freed convicted South African drug trafficker, Dewald Steyn de Beer. The 24-year-old was set free from a jail term by Justice Key Dingake yesterday, but was ordered to pay a P10, 000 fine.

De Beer was early last year convicted and sentenced to a one-year wholly suspended two-year jail term for importing drug ephedrine into the country. He was also ordered to pay a P10, 000 fine. He appealed the sentence.

When delivering judgment, Dingake said though conviction and sentencing was the discretion of a trial court and should rarely interfere with such decisions, the two-year jail term was too harsh.

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Court frees convicted SA drug trafficker

The Gaborone High Court has freed convicted South African drug trafficker, Dewald Steyn de Beer. The 24-year-old was set free from a jail term by Justice Key Dingake yesterday, but was ordered to pay a P10, 000 fine.

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