Suva High Court Judge Justice Salesi Temo has sentenced a man to 12 years and 10 months imprisonment for robbing a businessman in Visama Nausori on 28th May 2015.
Leone Rokomaraivalu is eligible to apply for parole after 11 years.
Rokomaraivalu entered the businessman’s house at about 2.30am and stole $32,847 worth of assorted gold jewellery and mobile phones and $9,000 cash.
Later he escaped in a van worth $12,000 which belonged to the businessman.
Justice Temo said that people go home to relax and feel safe but after this incident and because of people like Rokomaraivalu in the community the families are now living in fear.
He said to make people feel safe such offenders need to be removed from the community.
