Here’s a plan to avoid prosecution – just use your dad’s ID every time the cops come looking for you. It almost worked for Siphiwe  Tembe, from Soweto, who was finally arrested yesterday in connection with a murder which dates back to 1996.

Siphiwe has been on the wanted list of the Johannesburg police for 15 years.  He allegedly committed a murder when he was 17 years old, and has been arrested at least twice since then. The judicial system has never been able to link him to the murder though, because he told the courts he was someone else. He’s been using his late father’s name and ID book, into which he inserted a picture of himself. So simple, yet so effective.

“I don’t know why they (police) didn’t detect this person earlier,” Warrant Officer Kay Makhubela said.

“The court never picked up on this.”

The party’s over at last for Siphiwe, who will now be tried for the original crime of murder.

[Source: IOL]