KWEKWE — Midlands provincial magistrate Letwin Rwodzi sentenced jailbreaker Moses Makotore (36) to an effective five-year prison term for escaping from Kwekwe Prison on December 30 last year.
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Rwodzi said Makotore had committed a serious offence and proved to the court that he was unrepentant.
“Escaping from lawful custody is a serious offence and your actions have proved to this court that you are unrepentant and therefore only a lengthy custodial sentence would serve the ends of justice,” Rwodzi said before condemning Makotore to five years behind bars.
The magistrate also lifted a four-month suspended sentence that had been hanging over Makotore’s head.
Makotore had been facing 19 counts of unlawful entry and theft, but was only convicted of two counts and sentenced to 14 months in prison. Four months were suspended on condition of good behaviour and another four on condition he restituted one of his victims $2 228 leaving him serving an effective six months.
Makotore told the court that he lived in constant fear while in prison as some police detectives repeatedly visited him and threatened him with arrest for unspecified crimes, once set free.
He escaped with three months of his sentence left and hid at Sand Boys Mine in Silobela were his younger brother works, but was arrested following a tip-off on January 4.
