Jane Mlambo| An unlicenced Harare tout, Chrispen Magaya was yesterday sentenced to seven years in jail after the court found him guilty of running over and killing a pedestrian with a kombi.

Magaya who was previously jailed two years after he pleaded guilty to a similar offence.

State Prosecutor Isheunesu Mhiti proved before a Harare magistrate Barbara Mateko that the accused had defied a previous court ruling and continued to drive without a license.

On his latest offence, Harare magistrate Barbara Mateko sentenced him to a combined seven years imprisonment for culpable homicide, driving without a licence, failure to stop after an accident and failure to report an accident after 24 hours.

Magaya will however serve an effective five years after two years of his sentence were suspended on condition that he did not within that time commit a similar offence.

The prosecutor said the fact that Magaya was previously convicted of driving without a licence shows that he has total disregard for the law.

“What aggravates the matter is that these so-called public service vehicle drivers treasure money they get more than the lives of the passengers who keep their businesses afloat,” he said.

It is State’s case that on October 8 this year and at around 9pm, Magaya was driving a commuter omnibus registration number ACZ 5162 which is a public service vehicle along Lomagundi road towards the Harare city centre.