Three members of the Laughing Boys gang received life terms for several murders. However, activists say many others are signing on for a life of crime.
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Three Laughing Boys gangsters from Hanover Park convicted for murder, and a man who hid guns for them were handed heavy sentences in the Pollsmoor Circuit Court on Friday.
The three Laughing Boys gangsters, and a man who stashed guns for them, drew heavily on their drug addiction and difficult background in Hanover Park in asking for mercy ahead of sentencing, but the prosecutor was having none of it.