Suspended sentence for security guard who shot young man
A security guard who shot dead a 20-year-old male was recently sentenced to seven years imprisonment on a charge of culpable homicide.
Dhiresh Rampal had left his Anker Road home on the Sunday afternoon of October 21, 2012, when he was shot in the head.
The security guard, stationed at the boom gates at the Viking Road entrance to the suburb accidentally discharged his gun as Dhiresh was driving past.
The young man was rushed to the Union Hospital, in Alberton, where he was placed on life support and his family – father Kevin, mother Shanitha and brothers Sasheen and Kiresh – kept a vigil at his bedside. He died two weeks later, on November 7, 2012.
On June 11, Johannes Mazibuko (29) was sentenced to seven years imprisonment, suspended for five years, on the condition that he is not convicted of culpable homicide during the period of suspension.
He was also found unfit to possess a firearm.
Det WO Albert van Wyk was the investigating officer.
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