Juveniles to be canned

gunpoint will receive between four and six strokes each.
One of the teenagers who is 16 had stolen his late father’s gun, which was being kept by his mother, and used it with his two accomplices to commit the crime.
The 16-year-old boy and his accomplices, both aged 17, yesterday pleaded guilty to armed robbery and unlawful possession of a gun when they appeared before regional magistrate Mr Rodgers Kachambwa.
One of the 17-year-old boys was sentenced to six light strokes coupled with a wholly suspended three-year jail term while the other will receive four strokes.
They will be administered by a prison officer using a cane.
The 16-year-old boy was sentenced to five strokes and a wholly suspended three year jail term.
Mr Nathaniel Chigoro appeared for the State.
The complainant is Billard Mashupiko (38) employed as a taxi driver by Eagle Taxis.
The agreed facts are that on February 26 this year the trio hatched a plan to rob people using a gun.
On the same day the 16-year-old stole his late father’s revolver that was in the custody of his mother and gave it to one of the gang members for safe keeping.
On March 5 at about 12pm the trio collected the revolver and went to the city centre where they approached Mashupiko at Mohammed Mussa Wholesale along South Avenue.
They hired him to take them to Greendale.
One of the teenagers who was armed occupied the front seat and directed Mashupiko into a close, where he produced the gun and pointed it at the taxi driver.
Mashupiko resisted and wrestled the boy but his accomplices who were seated at the back came to his rescue and overpowered the taxi driver.
The boys fled the scene and the complainant gave chase but he was shot in the left thigh before he could apprehend them.
Two of them were apprehended by members of the public and they led to the arrest of their gang member. – CR.