Friends jailed for gang rape, robbery

Kuda Tidimalo and Kelvin Maphosa PIC: LESEDI MKHUTSHWA
Kuda Tidimalo and Kelvin Maphosa PIC: LESEDI MKHUTSHWA

FRANCISTOWN: Two friends, Kuda Tidimalo and a Zimbabwean man Kelvin Maphosa, who raped a 37-year old woman in front of her married boyfriend were recently sentenced to 20-years in prison (for rape and robbery) by the Francistown Magistrate's Court.

The two were each convicted of robbery and rape at their own plea. They were given ten years for each offence. Tidimalo and Maphosa jointly committed the two offences on the 8th of April this year, in Tati Siding.

Principal Magistrate, Game Mooketsi ruled that the eight years in count two (robbery offence) would run concurrently with the 10 years the two men got for pleading guilty to rape (count one). This means that the two men will now go to prison for 12-years.

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