Convicted drug dealer Sheryl Cwele has turned to the Constitutional Court to get her prison term reduced.
|||Johannesburg - Convicted drug dealer Sheryl Cwele, the ex-wife of State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele, has turned to the Constitutional Court to get her prison term reduced, Beeld reported on Thursday.
She asked Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng to reduce her 20-year jail sentence to 12 years.
Cwele and her co-accused, Nigerian national Frank Nabolisa, were initially convicted in May 2011 of dealing in cocaine by Pietermaritzburg High Court Judge Piet Koen and each sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment.
The Supreme Court of Appeal later increased their sentences to 20 years.
Nabolisa then won an appeal against the harsher sentence in the Constitutional Court.
Now Cwele has filed a similar application. - Sapa