High Court in Limpopo, South Africa have sentenced serial rapist Lucan Malokolle Phalane to life behind bars.
Phalane was convicted of 25 counts of rape, robbery with aggravating circumstances and housebreaking.
NPA
provincial spokesperson Mashudu Malabi-Dzhangi said Phalane was found
guilty and sentenced on Thursday for his reign of terror which started
in 2011 and ended in March last year.
He raped 16 females, aged between 13 and 45, from communities in the villages around Burgersfort, Lenyenye and Tzaneen.
"He
also robbed his victims of cash, jewellery and cellphones. The accused
was finally arrested at Angelo squatter camp in Boksburg, Gauteng after
one of the complainants recognised him from the police identikit," said
Malabi-Dzhangi.
During the trial, the court heard testimony of how
Phalane and an accomplice roamed around the communities during the
night and broke into houses to rape the victims.
He would also
attack his victims in the streets by pouncing and ambushing them while
walking alone, or in the company of their partners.
Phalane was sentenced to life imprisonment for the rape of a 13-year-old girl, and 15 years each for 11 counts of rape.
The sentences will run concurrently to the life imprisonment sentence.
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