Double-Murderer walks free from court
What is our society coming to, when a convicted double-murderer is spared jail because the court doesn’t foresee him repeating his crime?
In December 2005, Andries Mashele’s wife told him that she was leaving him. He was so enraged that he took his gun and murdered his wife and 4 year old son. He then turned the gun on himself, but survived.
Now Judge Ronel Tolmay of the Pretoria High Court has convicted him without ANY jail time at all!
Mashele got 10 years imprisonment, suspended for 5 years. He also has to complete 800 hours community service and to pay his deceased wife’s family a mere R2000.
The judge said that he was not the kind of individual who should be removed from society.
This judgement is disgusting and is typical for the ridiculous overly-liberal ‘justice’ system we have in place now.
Justice is not meant to be about the offender, it is about giving redress to the victims. In this case the living victims are the friends and family of Sibongile Mahlangu, and his four-year-old son, Theo. What sense of hustice do these victims feel?
Andries Mashele deprived TWO people of their lives, one of which was an innocent child. No matter what his motives were, he deserves to lose his liberty – at least for an extended period of time. THAT would be justice!
What does it take these days for murderers to get any length of time in prison?
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