MS LOONAT
Mr Chairperson, Honourable Members of the Committee, my Learned Colleagues, Ladies and
Gentlemen, my client is today seeking amnesty for this horrendous crime.  In his evidence he states that he was 19 years old when he committed the first offence which was stealing a purse to the value of R4 for which he received four strokes.  
	He has since had a clean record. ...(intervention)