A busy session at the Appeals court

Benson Keganne and Modise Mokwadi Fly want a panel of seven CoA judges to reverse the decision High Court that sealed their fate with the hangman.Murder convict Fly who is the former Secretary General of the Botswana Congress Party Youth League was condemned to death for the murder of his two-year old son Tawana Mosinyi in October 2008, while Keganne of Pitsane was sentenced to death in August 2008 for the murder of Gloria Mahowe at Maisane farmlands near Molapowabojang on March 10, 2001. Another case that is expected to come before the panel is that of Liberty Mhlanga.

Mhlanga was declared a criminal lunatic in 2001 at the age of 19 years. He was convicted in all the 15 charges he faced, which ranged from murder, attempted murder, burglary, possession of unlicensed firearms and theft. He had pleaded not guilty to all the charges.