Senior cop convicted of three counts of rape
13 April 2013 9:01
A former senior policeman
has been convicted on several charges including rape by the Sasolburg Regional
Court, the Independent Police Investigative Directorate has said.
“[The court] found
37-year-old Mahlatse Thobakgale guilty of three counts of rape, one count of
pointing a firearm and one count of negligent discharge of a firearm,”
spokesman Moses Dlamini said yesterday.
Thobakgale was convicted on
Thursday. He was a senior superintendent in the Free State provincial
commissioner’s office.
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.”
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, Dlamini said.
He was arrested shortly
afterwards and dismissed from the police. He would be sentenced on Monday.
