Anthony Hall is on the warpath over the light sentence. Photo: Facebook

Anti-drug crusader Anthony Hall is hopping mad over the ‘light’ sentence imposed recently on a man caught with heroin with a street value of R50 million.

Hall voiced his outrage in an impassioned letter addressed to NPA boss Shaun Abrahams, which he published on Facebook this morning. He urged people to share the letter.  In the letter Hall describes the R50 000 fine or five year imprisonment, and additional five year suspended sentence on condition that the man does not commit a similiar offence, as “a slap in the face of all South African families who have been affected by drugs”.

Compared the sentence to one imposed for dagga
Hall, a former drug user and Drug Squad detective and the co-founder of the R.A.E.L. recovery centre outside Worcester, went on to compare the sentence with one recently imposed on a man for possession of dagga. “Last week in Randburg a man was given 6 years for the possession of dagga – surely something does not add up …

With respect to the courts this case is one of, if not the largest, heroin bust in South African history… A R50 000 fine is petty cash when such a large quantity of killer drugs is involved.”