\u201cEk het alle vertroue in ons regstelsel en byna in God verloor. Ek weet my kind was g\u2019n engel nie, maar hy het beslis nie verdien om s\u00f3 wreed vermoor te word.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Met hierdie woorde het Gina Smith, ma van die vermoorde Clint Smith, byna almal in die Wes-Kaapse hooggeregshof in trane gehad \u2013 selfs die beskuldigdes wat skuldig bevind is aan die moord op haar seun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die veroordeelde moordenaars, Gerrit Franse, Michael Adams, Aldrick Adams en Chestwell Essop, is Woensdag 12 Junie elk lewenslange tronkstraf toegedien vir die moord op Clint in 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die vier is ook elk ses jaar direkte tronkstraf vir ontvoering opgel\u00ea terwyl Chestwell \u2019n verdere 12 maande gekry het vir rig van \u2019n vuurwapen. Essop het op sy beurt ook \u2019n addisionele ses maande vir die besit van \u2019n gevaarlike wapen ontvang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die hof het gelas dat die vonnisse aaneenlopend uitgedien moet word, wat beteken dat hulle effektief lewenslank in die gevangenis sal wees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Clint se lyk is 22 Maart 2013 met 247 steekwonde in Saxonwold naby die Push Pub langs die ou Mamre-Darling-pad gevind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Regter Robert Henney het die vier Vrydag 31 Mei skuldig bevind nadat die saak in Februarie begin het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cGoeie samewerking tussen die nasionale vervolgingsgesag, die polisie en die gemeenskap is van kardinale belang in die stryd teen bendegeweld, wat baie gemeenskappe gevange hou,\u201d het die staatsaanklaer, adv. Louise Friester, in die hof ges\u00ea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Friester meen die gemeenskappe van Atlantis en Elsiesrivier is beter daartoe af met die bendeleiers wat jare lank in die gevangenis sal wees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Erik Ntabazalila, woordvoerder van die nasionale vervolgingsgesag, het na afloop van die hofsaak ges\u00ea bendegeweld teen gemeenskappe sal nie langer geduld word nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy het die getuies in die saak wat \u201ckans gesien het\u201d om te getuig wetende hul lewe was in gevaar, bedank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie gemeenskap moet weet die staat sal alles moontlik doen om getuies te beskerm wat bereid is om op te staan en te help om misdaad te bekamp,\u201d het Ntabazalila ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Regter Henney het in die vonnisoplegging ges\u00ea die staat verwerp die artikel 204-getuie, Sulaiman Halliem, se weergawe en kwytskelling vir sy aandeel in die moord word daarmee geweier. Henney het gelas dat die artikel 204-getuie ook aangekla moet word vir Smith se dood. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meer op bladsy 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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