Long term jail for multiple offender
ALEXANDRA – Detective sends multiple offender to years behind bars.
Thirteen years of detective experience paid off for an officer at Alexandra Police Station who secured a 30-year sentence for a multiple offender.
Jabulani Magagula who served 10 years in prison for a 2003 conviction of illegal gun possession was this time sentenced in the Alexandra Magistrates’ Court for among others, the hijacking of a woman at gunpoint in Soweto on 5 May last year.
He was arrested and the vehicle was recovered on the same day in 4th Avenue, Alex after the victim who had been locked in a shack, escaped and reported the incident.
He appeared in court 17 times resulting in the conviction of 10 years for kidnapping, 15 years each for hijacking and possession of a stolen vehicle and one year for perjury after he identified himself by another name. The sentences were ordered to run concurrently for 30 years.
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Detective Sergeant Sello Mosomane said the accused together with an accomplice who is at large, pounced on the victim who had parked her Hyundai motor vehicle at night to open the gate to her home in Moroka township.
The pair pointed guns at her as she returned to the vehicle and ordered her into the backseat. They drove with her for a while before parking the vehicle. Another vehicle came and stopped next to them and its driver joined them.
They ordered the victim not to scream as they drove with her in her vehicle to Alexandra where they left her locked in a shack on 16th Avenue. She escaped and went to report the incident at the police station.
An alert was put out for the vehicle and it was found by Metro police 20 minutes later on 4th Avenue with the accused in the car.
On arrest, he identified himself by another name but an investigation revealed his true identity and that he had two home addresses in Alex and Bram Fisherville.
Station spokesperson Sergeant Simphiwe Mbatha lauded Mosomane for securing the sentence. “It’s a sign of commitment and diligence by the station’s officers,” Mbatha said.
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