Man gets suspended sentence for defilement

Francistown Magistrate Court
Francistown Magistrate Court

FRANCISTOWN: A sex offence that happened more than five years ago came back to haunt a 25-year-old man on Tuesday after he was convicted of a single count of defilement.

Lady Luck however smiled on the accused, Mothoetsho Gabaratanelwe, after he was sentenced to seven strokes and given a non-custodial sentence.

Gabaratanelwe was also sentenced to five years in jail wholly suspended for a period of five years on condition that he does not commit any offence that has an element of sex within the same period. He committed the offence in 2012 at Monarch.

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