Just in: S’African policeman bags 30yrs in jail for killing a Nigerian man

Austin Reynold, a South African police constable, has been sentenced to 30 years in jail for killing a Nigerian man, Ebuka Okori, in Durban in 2018.

He was sentenced on today, three days after he was found guilty of shooting the victim at close range and robbing him during an unauthorised raid on a community where Okoli resided.

He was charged with one count of murder and three counts of robbery. Reynold‘s accomplice in the raid, Brinley Pallo was the one who testified against him on Friday.