The Pretoria High Court on Thursday sentenced four white South African policemen to between four and five years in jail for urging their dogs to maul Mozambican immigrants.
Jacobus Smith, 30, was given seven years in prison with a two-year suspended sentence, and his three colleagues, Lodewyk Koch, 32, Benjamin Henzen, 32, and Eugene Truter, 28, were each given six years in jail with a two-year suspended sentence.
The four men pleaded guilty last week to assault for the 1998 attack, in which they encouraged their police dogs to savagely attack three Mozambican immigrants.
The attack, which was captured on video and broadcast on television worldwide, shocked the nation.
The police officers had been charged with aggravated assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and with seeking to pervert the course of justice – Pretoria (AFP)
