William Beale is appealing a 15-year sentence handed to him by the Thembalethu Regional Court in George in November 2017.
CAPE TOWN - Judgement has been reserved in an appeal brought by Plettenberg Bay paedophile William Beale in the Western Cape High Court.
The computer engineer was convicted on more than 18,000 charges related to the possession of child porn. He told the court Beale’s sentence was strikingly disproportionate when compared with cases of the same nature.
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