Andile Lungisa released on bail after serving just 16 days
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ANC councillor Andile Lungisa has been released on bail of R10 000 after serving just 16 days of his two year sentence for assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm.
Senior prosecutor Clive Killian said after extensive consultations last night with the trial prosecutor and investigating officer, it was decided not to oppose Lungisa's application for bail.
Lungisa will now petition to the Grahamstown High Court for leave to appeal both his conviction and sentence.
Lungisa says in an affidavit that at the core of his appeal was whether or not he had intended to assault Kayser and the magistrate had misdirected himself in finding that he had.
Lungisa says he had believed he was under attack at the meeting and had been defending himself.
He said the sentence was shocking and disproportionate to the crime.
Lungisa, 40, smashed a glass water jug over the head of DA councillor Rano Kayser during a heated Nelson Mandela Bay council meeting in October 2016.
The brawl – captured on video by DA PR councillor Renaldo Gouws - broke out during a heated council meeting on October 26, 2016.
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