Cop Killers Get Life

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Johannesburg - The killers of police Lieutenant Colonel Mark Ishlove have been sentenced to life behind bars, The Star newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Ishlove, 60, died in a shoot-out between police and a five-man gang near a primary school in Northcliff, Johannesburg on June 15 last year. Two of the gunmen died.

The three who survived were sentenced to life imprisonment by the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg on Monday for his murder.

"The court is satisfied that the minimum prescribed sentence will not be unjust," Judge Naren Pandya was quoted as saying.

Happy Mokorongo, Mountain Msezane, and Joseph Mogashoa were also sentenced to 16 years on four counts of attempted murder and an additional five years for attempting to kill Warrant Officer Selby Sibanyoni, who was wounded.

Mokorongo received a further five years in jail for possessing a semi-automatic firearm.

All three received another 15 years for unlawfully possessing other firearms used in the shooting, and an additional year for possessing ammunition. The sentences would run concurrently.

They were acquitted of murdering their accomplice, who died in the shooting.
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http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Joburg-cops-killers-get-life-in-jail-20120515

May you 3 rot in jail.
 
The sentences would run concurrently.
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Well whats the point then? If your sentences are not consecutive, why bother giving them more than one? It was a waste of the judge's breath.
 
daveza said:
Without parole or time off for good behaviour ?
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I think 20 years is the minimum you can serve and then get parole if you got a life sentence.

From Wiki:

Life imprisonment in South Africa

In South Africa, a life sentence is mandatory for premeditated murder, gang rape, serial rape, rape where the rapist knew they were HIV positive, or if the victim was under 18 and/or mentally disabled. In certain circumstances, robberies and hijackings also carry a mandatory life sentence.

But section 51 of the Criminal Procedure Act 1977[1] controls the minimum sentences for 'other' types of murders, rapes and robberies to 25, 15 and 10 years respectively, so parole is almost always granted to life sentences after the minimum sentence for the lesser crime has been served. However, a prisoner must be given a parole hearing after having served 25 years.

In special cases, life imprisonment without any possibility of parole or pardon for an extensively long period of time (such as 1,000 years) can be imposed, such as in the case of serial killer Moses Sithole.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_imprisonment_in_South_Africa
 
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