Jail for man who sent body-double to prison for earlier sentence
Publish date: 13 June 2005
Issue Number: 1355
Diary: Legalbrief Today
Category: In Court
An engineer who got a relative to act as a body-double and serve his four-month jail sentence has himself been sentenced in a Bethlehem Regional Court to three years imprisonment for trying to cheat the system.
Rupert Reddi (41) was earlier sentenced for kidnapping and assaulting employees after a robbery at his factory. However, three months into his sentence it was discovered that prisoner Reddi was actually Roland Archery, says a report in Die Volksblad. In his judgment, Magistrate Hein van Niekerk said Reddis crime wasn\'t ordinary fraud, it was unique. It is the first time in my 27 years in court that I\'ve encountered this, he said. Full report in Die Volksblad
