Sentencing today for �dog style� rapist

Lebogang Mosikare | Monday January 26, 2015 12:46

 

Ananias was convicted for raping the complainant at some thickets at the Francistown Golf Course adjacent to Area A on September 1, 2012.

Passing judgment Basupi said the victim was raped while returning from Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) where she had gone to buy food around 9pm after running out of gas whilst cooking at her rented place at Gerald Estates.

She met the accused at KFC, where he started a conversation with complainant. Ananias told her that he was from Tanzania and after buying her food he offered her a ride back to Gerald Estates for P40.

The accused also gave two other ladies who were also at the fast food restaurant a ride. The two other ladies got out of the vehicle at their respective destinations, at which point Ananias took off, at a very high speed, to a different route towards the golf course. When the victim asked him where he was driving to, Ananias repeatedly beat her and told her to keep quiet. “He packed the car inside the golf course and lowered the driver’s seat.

He suffocated the victim with his hat before tying up her mouth and her hands at the back with a mutton cloth. The accused further undressed the complainant and proceeded to have sex with her without her consent,” said Basupi.

Basupi stated that Ananias noticed that the complainant was not responding while he was having sex with her.

“He angrily told her to thrust repeatedly and call the name of his boyfriend.” Once done with the violent sex act, the accused tried to start the car in order to drive away but could not because of mechanical problems.

Ananias violently ordered her to get out of the car and they walked a long distance in the golf course.

They reached a rocky place where they were some thorny trees. Ananias then pushed the victim to the ground and she suffered some scratches and bruises in the process, said the magistrate. “He then told her that he wanted to have sex again this time using dog style.

Ananias told her to bend and touch the ground in order for him to penetrate her from the back. The complainant complied because the accused was also threatening to stab her with a knife if she did not comply. It should be noted that the accused never used a condom every time he had sex with the complainant,” said Basupi adding that the victim was only wearing her underpants and t-shirt.

While walking, Basupi said, the accused and complainant reached a pond that was full of water. “He told the victim that he was now going to kill her. He tied her legs and hands of the complainant together and pushed her into the pond and left her to drown and suffocate in the pond,” said Basupi adding that the complainant miraculously managed to untie the mutton cloth that the accused used to tie her. Basupi said the complainant saw some houses while tracing her steps back because it was already early in the morning.

Said Basupi: “The victim was rescued by a good Samaritan who called the police.  The accused was arrested where he had left his car after he was found there trying to fix its mechanical problems. A cellphone, earrings, shoes, jeans and handbag were found inside the accused’s car. He failed to explain why the victim’s belongings were found inside his car.”

When asked if he objected to the victim’s version of the story, Basupi said that the accused did not dispute that he had sex with her save to say that the complainant was a prostitute whom he had bought at Area L shopping complex that night for P50.

Basupi said that Ananias told the court that the complainant was falsely implicating him because he did not give her P90 that they agreed that she would get after having sex. “I find that to be an afterthought designed to mislead this court. He failed to tell this court why he tied the complainant whilst having sex with her if at all they had agreed to have sex.

He also forgot that he told the court that the complainant was his girlfriend which makes me to wonder what was the purpose of tying the complainant with mutton clothes when having sex with her for the wholly night if all she was his girlfriend. I find that the state had proven its case against the accused beyond reasonable doubt and he is accordingly guilty as charged.”

Inspector Mengistu Chigala produced the accused’s previous convictions that included assault, house breaking and burglary and being found in possession of stolen property.

Ananias did not dispute the previous convictions.