News24 | Alleged mountain mugger has intellectual disability, court hears

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The man arrested for one of a spate of robberies in the Table Mountain National Park looked frail and bewildered during his second appearance in the Cape Town Magistrate's Court on Wednesday.

The family of the 23-year-old man sat anxiously in the public gallery, stifling the urge to wave as he walked up the steps from the holding cells.

He stood at the rails of the dock, leaning his thin arms on the banister, his cheekbones jutting out of his gaunt face, as the State said he had no previous convictions, and no other cases pending.

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