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Original Post Date: 2008-12-15 Time: 05:00:08 Posted By: Jan
By Karen Breytenbach
The courts have a duty to help ensure that the public can live without fear of getting robbed when they do ordinary things like dining at a restaurant.
This was the word from the Cape High Court on Friday as two men and two women were sentenced to 30 years in prison each for robbing patrons and killing local businessman John Boardman, 63, at the Wild Fig Restaurant in Observatory in 2004.
Acting Judge Ken Klopper called Boardman’s death “senseless and untimely”. The family was celebrating Boardman’s wife Marian’s birthday. Their daughter was pregnant.
| Acting Judge Ken Klopper called Boardman’s death ‘senseless and untimely’ |
The trauma of the killing has led the family to consider emigrating.
Marian Boardman said on Friday that, although she had hoped for life sentences, she was satisfied.
Klopper and two assessors sentenced Phumla Qunata, Xoliswa Mavalaliso, Lindile Ngqwala and Lungisa Sijadu to 20 years for murder and 10 years for each of five counts of robbery.
They had posed as diners before committing the crimes.
The robbery sentences would run concurrently, but the 20 and 10 years would be served consecutively. Sentences of eight years for illegal possession of firearms and two for possession of ammunition would be served concurrently with the 30 years.
| They had posed as diners before committing the crimes |
Qunata, who has a daughter of six, and Mavalaliso, who has three children in the Eastern Cape, wailed, and Sijadu, who cared for his two small children and three siblings who were still in primary school, looked shocked after sentencing.
Klopper said the court did not impose life, because the accused had already been in custody for more than four years and had compelling personal circumstances.
South Africans ought to be able to go to shops, restaurants, drive their cars and go home without fear of falling victim to violent crimes, he said.
“The court must at least attempt to show that such crimes cannot be condoned… and must promote a situation whereby we can live in peace and harmony with one another”.