Rapist Found Guilty

Lebogang Mosikare | Monday January 18, 2016 15:33

 

Ginger was alleged to have raped his victim at Ntshe on October 8, 2014.

Basupi said the prosecutor in the matter, Ogolotse Tampa told the court that the victim was afraid to tell anyone about her ordeal because the accused had threatened her.

“This point holds water because it is difficult to confide in strangers. In some cases it may be reasonable to do so but in the same circumstances may not be possible to report the matter at the earliest opportunity to strangers due to various aspects like age,” said Basupi.

He said in his view the complainant reported the matter to her boss timeously because all the people she first met were total strangers to her.

“I find that all the reasons advanced by the accused in his defence were an afterthought designed to misled the court and I find him guilty as charged,” said Basupi.

Defence attorney, Morgan Moseki argued it was totally incomprehensible for the complainant to say that she was raped because she did not tell people nor nurses that she found at Jubilee Hospital.

“She also did not tell fuel attendants at the filling station where they had stopped to fuel his car after he gave her money to pay for fuel,” said Moseki.

After being found guilty, Moseki applied for the accused not to be locked up in jail pending mitigation and sentence on January 29 because he was not a flight risk to which the magistrate conceded.