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The Pietermaritzburg High Court has convicted and sentenced a 32-year-old man to nine life terms for a cash-in-transit heist in 2019 which left two police officers and seven accomplices dead.
Police spokesperson, Captain Simphiwe Mhlongo, said Sandile Gumede was jailed on Thursday.
He said Warrant Officer Sifundo Musa, from the Special Task Force Unit, and Lieutenant-Colonel Carl van der Vyver, from Crime Intelligence Unit, were fatally shot in a shootout with heavily armed cash-in-transit robbers in Nongoma, northern KwaZulu-Natal.
Seven suspects were also fatally wounded during the shoot-out with the police.
Mhlongo said Gumede was arrested after the incident and was found in possession of the vehicle that was used during the robbery.
“Gumede was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for cash in transit heist, nine life terms imprisonment for the murder of two police officers and his seven accomplices. He was further sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for each count of attempted murder,” Mhlongo said.
The sentences will run concurrently.
