ISAAC MOFOKENG, the man who shot and wounded Johannesburg Zoo’s Max the gorilla while fleeing from police in July 1994, was sentenced to 40 years in jail in the Johannesburg Regional Court on Friday. Mofokeng, who was convicted on 10 counts including rape, robbery, housebreaking and malicious damage to property (for shooting the R2,5-million gorilla), drew five years for shooting Max. In sentencing Mofokeng, Magistrate Joe Ikaneng called Mofokeng “a loose cannon, a danger to society and a walking time bomb”. The magistrate noted that all the offences for which Mofokeng was convicted involved a degree of violence. “If you are left outside, the next crime you are probably going to commit is murder,” he said.