Clifford co-accused wants jail time converted

Adrienne Carlisle

FORMER Absa bank employee Niel Terblanche, who helped Eastern Cape pyramid investment scheme queen Maureen Clifford defraud hundreds of investors of some R152-million in 2000, wants his 10-year jail sentence converted to a non-custodial sentence.

Having been out on bail for almost four years after serving just eight months of his sentence in 2009, Terblanche has remarried, mended fences with his family and helped build up a business with a R7-million annual turnover in Humansdorp.

In court papers he said he did not want to return to Port Elizabeth's St Albans prison, which he labelled as a corrupt, overpopulated, disgusting hell hole.