TWO police officers who demanded “coffee and pies” from motorists who failed breathalyser tests had their case separated for sentencing yesterday in the Port Elizabeth Commercial Crimes Court.
Seargent Mziwandile Mventshana, 42, and Constable Khayalethu Hlamvana, 36, were convicted on two counts of corruption on May 6.
The pair were due to be sentenced yesterday but requested a postponement for Mventshana to get another lawyer.
The court also ordered the case be separated.
Mventshana will appear in court tomorrow with his new lawyer while Hlamvana will appear on July 11 for a correctional supervision officer’s report.
In the first case, the two officers carried out a breathalyser test on Michael Beckley in Cape Road in December 2014. They told him he failed the test and asked him to buy them coffee or pay them R200 to avoid arrest.
They accepted R150 from him before letting him go.
Later, Beckley and a passenger, reported the incident to police.
In another incident in December 2014, the officers allegedly offered a motorist, Michael Thompson, the choice of buying them coffee and pies or paying money after he had failed a breathalyser test.
Thompson allegedly offered them R70.
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