THE prospect of spending five years behind bars is the price a young Windhoek resident will have to pay for a street robbery he committed in a drunken state nearly three months ago.
The community expects people who commit a crime as serious as robbery to be punished appropriately, Magistrate Dinnah Usiku told Ricardo Tjatjitua (21) during his sentencing in the Windhoek Regional Court on Monday.
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