The Kimberley regional court recently handed down a 14 year prison sentence to a 36 year old man Sekhonola Seatile for armed robbery. Police spokesperson sergeant Merapelo Pilane says the accused and an accomplice entered a shop in Long Street, Kimberley where they threatened the shop keeper at gun point and robbed him of cash, cigarettes and cellphones on the 12th August 2022. Pilane says they then locked the complainant inside his shop and fled the scene. He says after they arrested bail was successfully opposed and denied.  Merapelo says the accused was found guilty as charged and sentenced to an effective 14 years direct imprisonment and was declared unfit to possess a firearm.

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