NINE YEARS IN JAIL FOR ‘AMABENJAMIN’

MBABANE – Mvutshini residents will no longer have to worry about terror gang ‘Amabenjamin’ for the next nine years.
This follows their sentencing at the Mbabane Magistrates Court yesterday.

The feared gang members who terrorised residents of Mvutshini and surrounding areas were sentenced to nine years imprisonment.
They were found guilty in all the offences they committed in the area.

Among other crimes the gang was facing were robberies, assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and housebreaking with intent to steal and theft. Bhekisisa Mngometulu and his brother Philani and Celimphilo Vilakati were sentenced by Mbabane Senior Magistrate Nonhlanhla Dlamini yesterday.

Before their sentencing, the brothers asked the court to be lenient with them when passing sentence, stating that they had just received a report that their brother had died.

They said if the court may exercise its leniency they would be in a position to assist their mother as she was preparing to bury their relative.

“There is nothing painful than losing your relative while in prison. May we be given a second chance so that we can bury our brother? More than anything, our mother is not in good terms with the other family members so we don’t know what will happen to her if we are away,” they said.
Vilakati on the other hand pleaded for leniency, stating that his mother was looking up to him to help her as he was the youngest son in her family.

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