Andile Lungisa to spend first night in jail after court dismisses his leave to appeal application
ANC Eastern Cape heavyweight Andile Lungisa will be spending his first night behind bars after his application for leave to appeal his earlier conviction and sentencing was dismissed in the Port Elizabeth Magistrate's Court.
Lungisa was sentenced to an effective two years in jail earlier on Wednesday for assault with the intent to do grievous bodily harm.
Lungisa, who pleaded not guilty in the Port Elizabeth Magistrate's Court, was accused of smashing a glass jug over the head of former member of the mayoral committee Rano Kayser, during a Nelson Mandela Bay council meeting in October 2016.
Last month, Magistrate Morne Cannon found Lungisa guilty and earlier on Wednesday sentenced him to three years in jail, of which one year was suspended for five years. It amounted to an effective two-year jail term. He was also declared unfit to possess a firearm.
Lungisa's defence attorney, Luthando Ngqakayi, raised three key points relating to the guilty finding.