Ndebele sent back to drawing board
Setshego Gaobolwe | Friday July 11, 2014 14:36
Ndebele had approached the CoA seeking a reduction of the 14-year sentence he received for stocktheft in 2006. Ndebele‘s lawyer Mogakolodi Segwagwa had asked the Court to backdate his client’s sentence and accommodate time already spent, only for judges to inform him to carefully study the records as Ndebele had previous convictions running alongside the sentence.
Thus, judges Ian Kirby, Elijah Legwaila and Alistair Abernethy said Ndebele would not be released even after serving the sentence for stocktheft.
Segwagwa had a hard time putting his client’s case across, as the Court of Appeal bench asked pointed questions on Ndebele’s criminal history and the sentences he had or was still serving for various crimes. The judges gave Ndebele’s team up to July 18 to collate the correct dates of when their client was sentenced and imprisoned for the various offences.
“Instead of wasting more time, we have agreed that it is important that justice be done and we thus adjourn to give you more time to collect the correct information and file the papers two days before the case date,” said Kirby.