A CAPE Town court has sentenced two Muslim vigilantes to a suspended sentence and three years of community service for the killing of a seven-year-old girl in 1998. The men, Mogamat Adams and Abduraghman Thebus, are members of the vigilante group People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad). The two were found guilty of murdering Christel Abrahams – caught in the crossfire of a gun battle between Pagad and gangsters in the poor suburb of Ocean View – and of the attempted murder of her cousin and a bystander. The two were wounded when they tried to carry the girl to safety. Judge Derrick Mitchell said the real killers of the girl were the members of her community who had failed to provide the police with information that could help them convict the gangsters operating in the city’s suburbs. – AFP