Durban - Disbarred Durban attorney Ian Stokes - convicted of stealing more than R5.7m of his friends' money from a trust account - was sentenced to in effect six years in jail by the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Durban on Wednesday.
He was expected to begin serving his sentence in the afternoon after he failed to get leave to appeal his conviction and was also refused bail pending petition to the Chief Justice.
"Justice has been done," said Durban businessman Robbie Sevel, a former friend of Stokes who gave him R2m to invest in a business to "buy" Road Accident Fund claims.
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