A man who robbed a Pep store with a toy gun was sentenced to 15 years in jail.
The Johannesburg Magistrates’ Court handed down the sentence to 36-year-old Zimbabwean national Prince Ncube on Wednesday.
Ncube and two accomplices robbed Pep in November 2019 and fled with money from the tills but were caught after a customer followed them and alerted police who were patrolling the area. Cops found the toy gun on Ncube.
SAPS spokesman Xoli Mbele said: “We hope this sentence will scare away would-be offenders from committing the same crime.”