Read the full judgment text of CACC 000321/1996 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 3 December 1996.
1. The offences were all lift robberies. They were committed between 10 July 1995 and 17 November 1995, the last eight being between 21 October and 17 November. They were committed mostly in the day time or early evening, and in all women were threatened with a paper knife, save for the first offence in which the applicant used a belt to threaten the victim. In three of the offences, women suffered minor injuries when they resisted. In a number of the offences more than one woman was present. So