Ex-TAFIC coach gets 10 years rape jail

Thursday, February 11, 2021

FRANCISTOWN: A former TAFIC Football Club coach was today (Thursday) sentenced to 10 years in jail for rape.

The convict, Newman Gaobone, 49, committed the offence between January 29 and 30 in 2014 at Gerald Estates in the Francistown Administrative District of the Republic of Botswana.

Delivering judgement, Chief Magistrate Thebeetsile Mulalu said the matter was first registered before Court on April 8, 2014 but it was not until December 2015 that the trial commenced.

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