Bheki Cele welcomes life sentences for three Gauteng police killers
PRETORIA - Police Minister Bheki Cele and Hawks head Lieutenant-General Godfrey Lebeya have welcomed the hefty sentences handed to three men for their role in the murder of a police officer and a businessman.
Halalisani Eugene Gumede, 30, Lungisane Gamelihle Madlala, 27, and Ntuthuko Mseleku, 30, were sentenced in the High Court in Johannesburg this week to six life sentences plus 604 years imprisonment after they were found guilty of murder, attempted murder, armed robbery, possession of unlicensed firearms, and defeating and obstructing justice, the Hawks said in a statement.
In August 2016, the trio attacked and robbed a tavern in Palm Ridge, east of Johannesburg. The owner of the tavern, Mbakwa Ephraim Mdaka, 50, was contacted and when he arrived at his business he was shot dead. The three took Mdaka's firearm, an undisclosed amount of money, and ransacked the tavern. As they drove away, local armed response security officials responding to the crime scene were confronted by Gumede, Mseleku, and Madlala, who overpowered them and took their firearms before speeding off.
An off-duty Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police officer, Constable Sabelo Welcome Ngwenya, 40, heard the commotion and rushed to the scene, "and immediately put himself on duty and chased after the accused's vehicle".
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