Lengthy jail time for career criminal
His crimes were committed between 2020 and 2022 in Port Shepstone CBD, residential areas in Marburg as well as in Izotsha.
The public can sleep a little easier now that career housebreaker Sandile Chiliza (26) has been convicted of multiple counts of housebreaking, theft and robbery.
He was sentenced in the Port Shepstone Regional Magistrate’s Court last Friday to 32 years imprisonment.
The sentences on all the counts will not run concurrently, and he was deemed unfit to possess a firearm.
His crimes were committed between 2020 and 2022 in the Port Shepstone CBD, residential areas in Marburg, as well as in Izotsha. He was linked to various crime scenes via fingerprints, and police then focused on a specific identified suspect.
He was arrested in a raid on April 14, 2022, and remained in custody while his trial proceeded.
The investigating officer in all the cases was Detective Sergeant Emelda Niemack of Port Shepstone Detective Service.
Ugu District Detective Commander Brigadier Bongani Sibiya is elated at the sentencing as this is a first where the sentences on all the counts do not run concurrently, resulting in the 32-year sentence for property crimes.
Sibiya reaffirmed his commitment in support of his hardworking detectives in the Ugu District and thanked the Department of Justice for their role in the projected outcome of the cases.
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