COP HANDED 33 YEARS FOR RAPE,
KIDNAPPING & ROBBERY
Constable
Lungile Majola was sentenced for kidnapping, rape and robbery with aggravating
circumstances.
JOHANNESBURG - A police constable
has been handed 33 years in prison after being found guilty of kidnapping and
raping an 18-year-old woman.
Constable Lungile Majola was
sentenced in the Palm Ridge High Court on four counts including kidnapping, rape
and robbery with aggravating circumstances.
Last April Majola stopped next to
the victim and her boyfriend in a VW Polo, robbed the pair of their cell phones
and then raped the woman in a nearby field.
The Independent Police
Investigative Directorates Grace Langa said, "Ipid managed to secure a
33-year sentence against a constable for theft and pointing of a firearm. The
second case was kidnapping, the third robbery and the fourth rape."
Earlier today, a police officer
was arrested for allegedly raping a 25-year-old woman in
custody at the linden police station.
