It is always sad – yet funny – seeing someone with inordinate access to resources doing something incredibly stupid:
A South African man who paid a relative to serve a jail sentence in his place has finally been put behind bars. Engineer Rupert Reddi was sentenced in 2001 for kidnapping and assault. After an appeal process, a man believed to be Mr Reddi was imprisoned in 2003. Three months later, prison officials discovered that the prisoner in question was in fact Roland Archery, a relative of Mr Reddi. Both men have now been sentenced to three years’ jail for the fraud. Mr Reddi was originally sentenced to four months’ jail in connection with an assault on his employees following a robbery at a factory he owned.