High Court upholds stock theft sentence

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FRANCISTOWN: High Court judge Bengbame Sechele has upheld a five-year sentence passed on Letshikanye Ditshiki by a Magistrate's Court in Selebi-Phikwe in 2015.

Ditshiki was found guilty of stealing six cattle belonging to Kgosietsile Gabagane at Dimajwe cattlepost in 2012. 

Ditshiki had approached the High Court appealing his conviction and sentence on the grounds that there was no evidence linking him to the offence. 

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