Middleton case ‘still with high court’
At the time, regional magistrate Johann Bester, sitting with two assessors, Amos Ngcobo and Viloshnee Moodley, extended Middleton's bail, pending the outcome of his appeal.
For more than two and a half years former Ray Nkonyeni Municipality traffic chief Dave Middleton has been waiting to hear the outcome of his appeal from the high court.
In May 2018, he was sentenced in the Port Shepstone Regional Court to five years’ imprisonment.
At the time, regional magistrate Johann Bester, sitting with two assessors, Amos Ngcobo and Viloshnee Moodley, extended Middleton’s bail, pending the outcome of his appeal.
A reliable source confirmed that the appeal is still at the high court, and an outcome is awaited from the court.
The case began in 2013, when nude and semi-nude photographs of a smiling 13-year-old, as well as a photograph of what appeared to be a child’s hand holding an erect penis, surfaced on Middleton’s phone.
He was arrested in September 2013.
Six years later – in February of 2018 – Magistrate Bester and his assessors found Middleton guilty on nine of the 31 charges against him.
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