BDF arsonist gets eight years in jail

Bonno Ikanyeng (33) was found guilty of setting alight Botswana Defence Force (BDF) barracks at Area S on January 5, 2013. Property worth over P4.5 million being the property of the Botswana government and soldiers who lived in the barracks were burnt in the inferno.

Passing sentence to a packed courtroom, mostly filled with soldiers whose property was burnt, last Thursday Principal Magistrate Dumisani Basupi said he took into consideration that the accused was a first offender and sole breadwinner for her family.