However the circumstance you will prevail, As South African student Who blew £50,000 in a 73-day spending spree has escaped jail

A young lady who mistakenly got £850,000 instead of her usual £85 monthly university food grant and blew £50,000 of it in a 73-day spending spree has escaped jail.However the circumstance you will prevail, As South African student
Who blew £50,000 in a 73-day spending spree has escaped jail.

The young Lady Scholar Sibongile Mani, 32, relies on benefits to pay for her studies. But could not believe it when a government aid scheme sent her 10,000 times too much money.

Also The student released she had become an overnight multi-millionaire, with 14 million rands credited to her, when she checked her bank account in South Africa.

However Instead of contacting government officials, the accountancy student embarked on a spending spree Afterwards.

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In addition According to Mail Online, she ditched her old wardrobe for designer fashions bought herself and her friends the latest iPhones and swapped her cheap cornrow hairstyle for £200-a-time Peruvian weaves.

Looking into her new lifestyle, in which she blew a small fortune of £666 a day, soon began raising eyebrows.

Mani got exposed when she left a till receipt behind at a supermarket which showed she had more than the equivalent of £800,000 in her bank and was reported to the cops.

She was arrested in 2017 and charged with theft and fraud, and in 2022 was sentenced to 5 years in prison after blowing 818,000 rand – equivalent to nearly £50,000 in 2017.

But After being sentenced she wrote on her personal blog that she saw it as ‘miracle money’ and a ‘gift from God’ and ‘didn’t think twice’ on whether it was wrong to spend it.

The lady’s counsel Mr Asanda Pakade appealed on the grounds Mani was no danger to society, she had not sought out the money, and was not a candidate for overcrowded prisons.

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