Pretoria – The Johannesburg Top Courtroom on Tuesday sentenced a serial rapist to 16 lifestyles phrases in prison plus 150 years.
Gauteng police spokesperson Mavela Masondo mentioned Tebogo Petrus Matjeke’s reign of terror used to be basically within the Diepsloot house from round February 2013 till November 2014, when he and several other accomplices terrorised girls within the house
In line with Masondo, Matjeke and his gang attacked their sufferers within the early hours of the morning and wielded an object such as a firearm. At some level, he moved to the North West province the place he persevered along with his crime spree.
Matjeke used to be sooner or later arrested in 2019 after police connected him to a number of instances of rape, kidnapping, pointing of firearm, theft with nerve-racking cases, assisting and abetting.
The Gauteng Provincial Commissioner Lieutenant-Basic Elias Mawela counseled a junior detective, Sergeant Livhuwani Ramathavhana, who used to be instrumental within the investigation through accumulating proof, acquiring statements from witnesses and rape sufferers to testify in court docket.
“I’m pleased with this younger and lively detective sergeant who labored with zeal and exuberance to make certain that this serial rapist is got rid of from society and that he spends the remainder of his lifestyles at the back of bars,” mentioned Mawela.
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