HIT-AND-RUN kombi driver, Wadzanai Mabika, who last month fled the country after fatally knocking down a Form Four Girls High School pupil, Jocelyn Gomba has been sentenced to an effective jail term of six years, eight months.
Mabika (41) was sentenced by provincial magistrate Tendai Mahwe yesterday after he pleaded guilty to culpable homicide and five traffic offences.
Mabika was charged with culpable homicide, failing to stop after an accident, failing to report an accident within 24 hours, failing to ascertain if any person is injured or killed after an accident, failing to render assistance after an accident and reckless driving.
He was arrested in Polokwane, South Africa, on Sunday.