The hard work of Captain Menzi Miya of Parkview Police Station paid off after three suspects were convicted in Johannesburg Magistrates’ Court for housebreaking and robbery.
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“He investigated the case for a year and managed to get three suspects a conviction of 10 years’ imprisonment with a five-year suspended sentenced on condition that they do not commit a similar offence,” said Sergeant Iris Phoko, head of Social Crime Prevention at the station.
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She added that the three men committed the offence early last year when they forced open a gate of a house in the Parkview policing precinct and held up a domestic worker.
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