Youth Escapes The Noose

Justice Barnanas
Justice Barnanas

FRANCISTOWN: A Monarch location youth escaped the executioner’s noose after the court found out that there were exceptional extenuating circumstances that enjoin the court to pass a lesser sentence.

Passing the ruling on extenuating factors after convicting Keabetswe Joseph, 25, of murdering Mbakisi Dick at Liquor Bar on October 22, 2015, in Monarch, Justice Barnabas Nyamadzabo agreed with the defence counsel Isaac Seleka that the death penalty was under the circumstances unwarranted.

Joseph, then 20, told the court that on the day he committed the offence, he was at Liquor Bar drinking alcohol and smoking dagga with his contemporaries.

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