Rapist cop jailed for 18 years
April 15 2013 at 07:15pm
By SAPA
By SAPA
Johannesburg - A senior policeman
was jailed for 18 years by the Sasolburg Regional Court on
Mahlatse Thobakgale was found guilty of
three counts of rape, one of pointing a firearm and one of negligent discharge
of a firearm, spokesman Moses Dlamini said.
He was a Senior Superintendent based at
the Free State provincial commissioner's office at the time.
In February 2010, Thobakgale threatened
and abducted the Deneysville police station's clerk.
“(He) threatened the victim, 32 at the
time, who is a clerk at the station, with a firearm,” Dlamini said.
He forced her into his car and drove
her to an isolated spot. He ordered her to strip and then raped her three
times. Afterwards Thobakgale took her back to the station.
He was arrested shortly afterwards and
dismissed from the SA Police Service. - Sapa
