�Facebook� murderer fails to overturn death sentence

FB User PIC: KAGISO ONKATSWITSE
FB User PIC: KAGISO ONKATSWITSE

FRANCISTOWN: A convicted murderer who grabbed headlines a few years ago after taking to Facebook to plead his case, yesterday had his application for a discharge of the case rejected in the High Court.

Uyapo Poloko (37) is on death row for killing an Asian woman. Poloko attempted to kill the woman’s husband in the process of also robbing the couple.

Poloko, formerly a graduate of Counselling from Tonota College of Education had made an application he referred to as “an application for redress that sought the Court to discharge his conviction and sentence” before Justice Bashi Moesi while awaiting his appeal at the Court of Appeal (CoA).

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