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Whipped for stealing

Whipped for stealing
TAUGHT A PAINFUL LESSON: Gaerne in court

Two Tsau men paid a painful price for their naughty ways on Tuesday, when Maun Magistrates Court sentenced them to five strokes each for stealing Copper cables from Botswana Telecommunications (BTC).

The duo, 21-year-old Sherpard Gaerene and Monnaathebe Moroka, 32, nicked the cables from BTC connectivity in Tsau, some 140k from Maun, on a date not exactly known to the prosecution.

The pair, who readily pleaded guilty to theft, were busted when the bus taking them to Maun was stopped at a police roadblock and all the passengers’ bags were searched.

In her judgment, Magistrate Keneilwe ...

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