Read the full judgment text of DCCC 000364/2009 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 29 May 2009.
1. Crime does not pay and your past has caught up with you now. You absconded in January 1996 and was re-arrested 13 years later on 12 March 2009 when you returned from Australia. There would be no reduction on sentence for the delay to bring you back to justice as you had absconded from bail.