KZN rhino poacher handed suspended sentence
A court has handed a KwaZulu-Natal man a suspended prison sentence in a case involving a rhino horn worth more than a million rand.
Wade van Staden was stopped and his car inspected by Pietermaritzburg police, two years ago.
He was driving along Orthman Road in Mountain Rise.
The horn officers found in his vehicle had an estimated street value of R1.2 million.
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The 32-year-old was arrested and pleaded guilty recently to illegally being in possession of the rhino horn.
The Pietermaritzburg Magistrate’s Court sentenced Van Staden to 18 months in prison, suspended for five years on condition that he isn’t charged with the same offence during his period of suspension.
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