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NOTORIOUS TRIO: Bongani Moyo, left, pictured with Khumbulani Sibanda and Leon Dube. Moyo escaped from custody and was yesterday sentenced to three years in jail for the escape. PHOTO: PEGGY NKOMO

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Magistrate Len Miller said escaping from lawful custody was a serious crime for which the court had to impose a term of imprisonment. The court had also taken into account that Moyo was appearing on charges of serious offences the day he escaped.

Moyo left the court building in August after being made to sit on a bench outside the courtroom where he was appearing. He was allegedly on crutches at the time.

He had been appearing with three others on charges of armed robbery, possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition, and resisting arrest.

It emerged in court yesterday that Moyo was, on June 4, sentenced in the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court to 14 years imprisonment for escaping from the Johannesburg Police Station. The court was not told about the circumstances of the escape.

Miller turned down a request by Moyo's lawyer, advocate Donald Somo, to order that the three-year sentence run concurrently with the 14-year term.

Somo told the court that he had been instructed to appeal the judgment.

The application for leave to appeal was set down for June 26.

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Jun 20, 2012

lindsay

aren't these people zimbos what are they doing here they should be deported to kruger national park judge lion is waiting for them.
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Jun 20, 2012

Punkies

There is someone fro correctional service who helped this guys to escape, they should be tortured until the mentio their inside assistant. There is no way an in-mate can walk out of court in crutches without being noticed by atleast one police officer. As for Moyo, he should be taken to Zim prison. Our SA prisons are already crowded.
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Jun 20, 2012

Vhampfarele

Atleast justice has prevailed. Moyo's tendency undermine the South African Justice as a whole, let him rot in jail, he dont deserve to live with human. as from today prison is his home lets see if he will escape again. Bring the bustard to Kutama Sinthumule Maximum Security
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Jun 20, 2012

DJ_MONAKZEN011

My zimbabwean friend told me tat he saw this guy in Zim last week...so i do think
we only got a zombie here in mzansi...the guy is busy chewing his money in Harare.
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Jun 20, 2012

Mamelodian

Only 3 years. That's a slap on the wrist and hardly a deterent to prospective escapees.
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Jun 20, 2012

Mas-culin

@ Mamelodian
I totally agree with you...

masculinnkosi@gmail.com
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Jun 20, 2012

DjEp

Zimbos come to Mzantsi to commit crime becuase they know our jails are a holiday destination.
Free DsTv,food, hot water, blankets, open nights,etc. In Zim your family must bring you food in jail or starve to death..
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Jun 20, 2012

Phunyukabemphethe

@DjEp

Good point. our government are so lenient to criminal
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Jun 20, 2012

MissBhakajuju

@DjEp

i'm so gatvol with the f.oreigners in this country, I just can't tolerate them anymore, I've lost all the sisterhood i had.

wish they can just dissapear, once


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Jun 20, 2012

DjEp

@Phunyukabemphethe
@MissBhakajuju

How do you give a criminal such a Moyo another three years on top of the 14 years he is serving, claiming you didnt know.
Put the bars.tad against the wall and sho.ot the shi.t out of him period.
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