Bananas Thief Gets 10 Years In Jail

Tshepo Sepatela was slapped with the sentence in June 2015 after the trial magistrate found no exceptional extenuating circumstances and committed him to the High Court for sentencing.

He was now appealing against his conviction arguing he was not given a fair hearing. Before conviction and sentencing he was alleged together with his friend to have burst into the woman’s house around 2013 in Old Naledi wearing balaclavas and attacked the woman and her 19-year-old son with a knife.