Drunk driver sentenced for killing young couple, PretoriaThe Pretoria Regional Court has on 21 July 2022 sentenced Andrew Kagiso Malele to eight years in prison for culpable homicide for causing the deaths of a young couple. He was also sentenced to three years imprisonment for drunk driving. The sentences are to run concurrently.
On 23 December 2017 Malele crashed his car into another, which led to the deaths of Ruan Coen and Jessika Kennedy . When the case was eventually assigned to a prosecutor, Adv. Hilke Meyer ensured the matter received the attention it deserved. The communication between the prosecutor, AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit and the victims were refreshed, and should in fact be the norm.
Adv. Gerrie Nel, head of AfriForum Private Prosecution Unit, says the unit is satisfied that there is finality in this matter five years after the young couple were killed. “The case would never have been enrolled in court if it was not for the involvement of the Private Prosecution Unit. This is yet another example of the failure of the criminal justice system. Most concerning is that the docket had gone missing.
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