Court upholds businessman's rape conviction

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FRANCISTOWN: The Francistown High Court today found a Maun-based businessman, Luke Khumoemang, guilty of the rape of his landlord’s daughter in 2016, inevitably upholding an earlier conviction and sentence by the Magistrate's Court.

The Magistrate’s Court had initially sentenced Khumoemang to 10 years in jail for the rape of a minor.

He was appealing the case and lost.  The rape incident he was found guilty of happened at Sowa Town where Khumoemang was given accommodation by the complainant’s mother while he was doing some construction work for the Sowa Town Council.

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