Expert warns of jail time for cash grabbers at CIT crime scenes
A legal expert says if you are tempted to pick up money left behind at any Cash-in-transit robbery scene don't do it.
It's after three Cash-in-Transit heists were carried out in eThekwini last week.
Videos from some of the scenes, show community members picking up money from the ground around the vans.
In a statement over the weekend, national police appealed to communities to refrain from going to the crime scenes adding that residents could be putting themselves in danger.
Sunil Singh from Sunil Singh and Associates says picking up money is a criminal offence and you could face prison time- if caught.
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" Any person going to disturb the crime scene can be judged for defeating the ends of Justice. Should it be people that go to the crime scene and take the money that amounts to theft as well as it does not belong to them?
In terms of defeating the ends of justice, they can get imprisoned ranging from 12 months to 5 years. In regards to theft, it can amount to a term of imprisonment if it is seen that they took copious amounts of money from an active crime scene."
