Surrendered fugitive gets suspended sentence
ALEXANDRA – House robbery fugitive hands self to police and gets suspended sentence.
A man who had been on the run since 2008 while out on bail for a charge of house robbery, handed himself in and was sentenced by the Alexandra Magistrates’ Court on 29 May to 10 years, wholly suspended for five years.
Mduduzi Ntshangase (27) committed the offence when he was 18 years old in the company of two others including Ndumiso Hadebe, then 21, who was found guilty and is still serving a 20-year term for the crime; and another who is still at large.
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Ntshangase handed himself at the Sandton Police Station.
The three were arrested by security guards on 28 March 2008 while trying to flee from a Kelvin home where they had robbed a maid of a cellphone and cigarettes. The owner of the place reacted to a commotion in the house and found the maid tied up.
He contacted the guards who arrived, searched the place and apprehended the three as they tried to scale a wall. All three were granted bail which Ntshangase, and the accomplices still at large, skipped until Ntshangase handed himself in.
