
A cleaner with the Lobatse Score Supermarket was sentenced to seven years in prison and five strokes after he pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing by servant at Peleng Customary Court on Thursday.
However, Moses Mooketsi of Peleng earned a reprieve when Kgosi Pius Letsholo wholly suspended his seven-year jail term. Before the sentence, the convict said he does not know what tempted him to commit the crime. "I had no intention of stealing at all." He asked the court not to sentence him to prison as he is the one looking after his ailing grandmother. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions
However, Moses Mooketsi of Peleng earned a reprieve when Kgosi Pius Letsholo wholly suspended his seven-year jail term. Before the sentence, the convict said he does not know what tempted him to commit the crime. "I had no intention of stealing at all." He asked the court not to sentence him to prison as he is the one looking after his ailing grandmother. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions