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#Mettler sentenced accordingly: State─── LUCKY NKUYANE 17:45 Wed, 28 Apr 2021
The state has argued in the Free State High Court that former Free State premier Ace Magashule's driver, Ricardo Mettler, was sentenced accordingly and that no other judge will come to a different conclusion.
This, as the state and defence for Mettler were delivering their heads of argument in an application for leave to appeal the conviction and sentence on Wednesday.
The state highlighted that the evidence which led to Mettler's conviction of 15 years imprisonment for stealing the R8 million Pierneef painting was credible.
During the heads of argument, Mettler's legal counsel, Advocate Christo Meiring, attacked the credibility of the evidence which was used to convict the latter and labelled it as confusing.
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