Francistown jailbreak: How armed guards stood watching

Thursday, June 22, 2017

Five escapees from the january breakout at the FCII, yesterday unexpectedly received light sentences after the magistrate considered the role played by corrupt prison guards

FRANCISTOWN: Armed prison guards watched in January as 18 prisoners, including hardened criminals, walked through a hole in the fence of the Francistown Centre for Illegal Immigrants (FCII), the deal facilitated by a handsome bribe, the Magistrates’ Court here has established.

As a result, yesterday Magistrate Ishmael Molobe sentenced five of the recaptured inmates to just six months extra in prison, instead of the allowable two years.

The lighter sentence was due to the role played by armed guards and an illicit deal that unleashed men accused of murder and armed robbery into the general population.

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