A PRISONER who repeatedly tried to shoot a correctional officer in the head during a failed escape from Odendaalsrus Correctional Centre in the Free State has had his effective sentence reduced from 28 to 23 years after the Supreme Court of Appeal found that the sentencing court failed to consider the combined weight of his punishment.
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