A man who benefited from President Jacob Zuma’s
special remissions programme appeared in court on Thursday for allegedly
raping a 94-year-old grandmother.
Spokesman of South African Police Service (SAPS), Col. Vincent
Mdunge, told newsmen in Johannesburg that the suspect is “a habitual
criminal’’.
He said that the suspect appeared at the New Hanover Magistrate Court on Thursday.
“The woman was raped in her KwaSwayimane home in Emabheleni Ward, at 1.00 a.m. on Saturday.
“Police have been looking for him for another case,” Mdunge said.
Mdunge confirmed that the suspect had been one of the 3,150 granted
presidential parole, and that police had been searching for him for his
part in an armed robbery case before the rape.
KwaZulu-Natal Correctional Services Commissioner, Mnikelwa Nxele,
confirmed that the suspect had been released at the start of the
presidential remission in June.
Nxele said that the alleged rape was regrettable and sad.(NAN)
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