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January 2017, 3:55pm
ANA
Reporter
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Pretoria - A suspended 33-year-old police constable, who was out
on bail in a murder case, appeared in the Empangala Magistrate's Court in
Gauteng on Wednesday for allegedly raping a 15-year-old girl.
The
Independent Investigative Directorate (IPID) said in a statement that the
police officer was suspended in 2013 for allegedly murdering 40-year-old Boy
Mahlangu.
He
was part of a group of four police officers who on Christmas day, 2013,
allegedly dragged Mahlangu behind a police vehicle after accusing him of
driving an unroadworthy vehicle.
He
died later in a local clinic.
IPID
spokesperson Moses Dlamini said he had been granted bail in the murder case.
Dlamini said the constable allegedly raped the teenager in the early hours of
Sunday morning.
"The
complainant alleges that on Saturday, 14 January 2017, she was walking with her
friend from RDP section B to Makarina Tavern when a police officer whose
children she went to school with, stopped his car next to her, while her friend
was a few steps ahead."
"The
police officer was in a car with his friend. It is alleged that the police
officer ordered the complainant to get into his vehicle, threatening to shoot
her if she didn’t. She duly complied and the police officer drove away after
which the policeman dropped his friend at another tavern. It is alleged that
the police officer drove to a gravel road and raped the victim".
When
the girl returned home and told her mother what had happened, she called the
police.
IPID
investigators took over the investigation and after the victim was medically
examined and interviewed, the constable was arrested.
In
the murder case against him, he is expected back in court on February 24.
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