Africa-Press – South-Africa. Three Laughing Boys gangsters from Hanover Park and a man who hid guns for them were handed heavy sentences in the Pollsmoor Circuit Court on Friday.
“Crime is not who you are,” acting Judge Raadiyah Wathen-Falken told them as they sat in a cell-like separate section of the court.
“Crime is not the person. Crime is the things that you do. And it’s the things that you do that can’t go unpunished when it is so in conflict with the law,” she said.
Mikyle Davids, his older brother Tyrone Davids, Shamieg Mathieson, and Munzeer January, who is not a gangster, were the subjects of the first full trial heard at the prison court.
Tyrone Davids got five life terms for the murders of Moegamat Hendriks on 6 August 2017, Abdul Sataar Joseph on 30 March 2019, and the triple murder of Bradwin Duminy, Sidney Moloy and Roeshana Kader on 12 April 2019.
He got five years for the attempted murder of Joseph’s baby, five years for the attempted murder of a woman during Joseph’s murder, eight years for unlawful possession of a gun, two years for illegal possession of ammunition and 15 years for aggravated robbery. The latter sentences will run concurrently with the murder sentences.
Mikyle Davids and Mathieson got three life terms for the triple murder, two 15-year sentences for aggravated robbery when they stole blood-soaked jewellery from Duminy and Moloy, eight years for unlawful possession of a firearm, and two years for the unlawful possession of ammunition. The latter sentences here will also run concurrently.
January was sentenced to two eight-year terms for the unlawful possession of two guns he hid for one of the accused, who was acquitted, and two years for unlawful possession of ammunition.
Wathen-Falken declared all of them unfit to possess a firearm, should they ever think of applying for a licence on their release.
Their co-accused Mikyle Abdullah, Malieka Meyer and Moegamat Kamiesh were acquitted.
This was because Kamiesh was asleep when January brought the guns into the house and did not know about them, and Abduallah and Meyer were freed because a witness was too stoned on mandrax when she saw the murder of Geraldine Jantjies to be regarded as reliable.
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