Two Heideveld skelms will spend the next seven years in the mang after being outsmarted by their teen victims.
Ganief Samuels, 30, and Duran Jeremiah, 24, were arrested in January after they held two teens at gunpoint and threatened to shoot them while stealing their cellphones and jewellery worth R10 000.
At the time Manenberg police explained they got a skrik when the 18-year-old girl and 19-year-old boy arrived at the station to report the case with information for the detectives.
The teens were robbed after 11am on 16 January and while they waited for their parents to arrive home they collected information in the community and identified the suspects and their hideouts.
The case was assigned to Sergeant Darryl van Noie, who wasted no time in arresting the two skelms and recovered some of the goods.
SKELM: Ganief Samuels, 30. Picture: Supplied
They appeared shortly afterwards in Athlone Magistrates’ Court for a bail application, but the determined detective took the stand and their application was denied.
After several months in Pollsmoor Prison the duo were sent to Wynberg Regional Court where they again applied for bail and it was denied.
Acting station commander, Colonel Sanela Zama, says upon being faced with a 15-year sentence the suspects entered into a plea deal.
“They were sentenced to 10 years of which three years are suspended.”