High Court sets group sex convicts free

Two policemen and three soldiers, who were convicted by Gaborone Magistrate, Munashe Ndlovu for forcing Zimbabweans they arrested to have sex while they watched have been freed by the Lobatse High Court.

Special constables, Sydney Ntope and Phetogo Gaanakobo and soldiers, Samuel Seshabo, Thato Bojosi and Moagi Samson were acquitted and discharged by Justice Gabriel Rwelengera who found that the magistrate erred when he convicted them.

Rwelengera said that Ndlovu failed to properly and objectively analyse the prosecution evidence, hence the conviction was improper and unsafe. The five men are members of the security forces who were assigned to patrol Ramotswa Village on November 25, 2005. They allegedly arrested and forced Zimbabweans to have group sex, while they watched.

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