Krejcir application for leave to appeal sentence dismissed
Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir’s attempt to get out of jail failed on Wednesday after the South Gauteng High Court dismissed his application for leave to appeal a 35-year jail sentence together with his five co-accused.
“In my view, there is no reasonable prospect for another court to come to a different conclusion, and it follows accordingly, that all applications made by all the accused against the conviction and the sentences are dismissed,” said Judge Colin Lamont.
Krejcir and co-accused Desai Luphondo, and former police organised crime Warrant Officers Samuel Maropeng, Jan Mofokeng, George Nthoroane and taxi boss Siboniso Miya were convicted of kidnapping and attempted murder last year over a drug deal that went wrong in 2013.
Lamont sentenced Krejcir and Luphondo to 35 years each, while Maropeng, Mofokeng, Nthoroane and Miya got 15 years each.
Krejcir, who had become a fugitive from his country in 2005 and resided in the Seychelles, arrived in South Africa two years later under a false name.
In 2012, Krejcir was sentenced in absentia to eight years of imprisonment for fraud in his home country. - ANA