Read the full judgment text of CACC 000058/2001 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 29 August 2001.
1. When the application was first listed for hearing, the only point which the Applicant relied on to say that the sentence of 3 years' imprisonment was excessive related to the value of the property he had handled. The judge had been told that the value of the 112 items of leather goods which had been stolen (leaving aside the $800.00 in cash) came to about $560,000.00. The Applicant said that the judge had been given incorrect information, and that their correct value was about $100,000.00. I