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A man was sentenced to 25 years for raping several young women.
- An Eastern Cape man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for raping several women.
- He began his “reign of terror” when he was 17 years old.
- The court heard that he wanted to humiliate his victims.
The Eastern Cape High Court in Makhanda sentenced a 22-year-old man to 25 years in prison for raping and attempting to rape five women between 2015 and 2018.
According to the spokesperson for the National Tax Authority, Anelisa Ngcakani, the man, Thulani Lamani, was 17 years old when he committed his first two rapes and attempted rape in 2015 and 2016.
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Judge Judith Roberson sentenced him to 57 years in prison combined for raping four women between the ages of 15 and 26, eight years for attempting to rape a 21-year-old woman, three years for burglary, and three and five years for burglary with aggravating factors. circumstances. Roberson ordered that some of the sentences be executed at the same time.
As a result, Lamani will serve 25 years in direct prison. This came after he was convicted of all these crimes on September 3.
On May 30, 2015, a 26-year-old woman was walking alone at night in Elliot when Lamani and a group of men demanded money and her cell phone. One of them stole her cell phone. As she tried to flee, Lamani, armed with a knife, chased her, grabbed her and raped her twice.
The following year, on February 27, in Elliot, Lamani broke into the home of two sisters, ages 21 and 15, who lived with their mother. They all slept with four small children. Armed with a knife, Lamani threatened them and took a television. He raped the 15-year-old girl twice and tried to rape the older sister, who was eight months pregnant at the time, but was unsuccessful.
Eight months later, on October 29, 2016 also in Elliot, Lamani raped a 17-year-old girl. The victim had visited a tavern with friends when she went home alone. Lamani, who was also at the tavern, offered to walk her home. She agreed as he knew and trusted him. Near her home, he took out a knife, stabbed her in the arm, and forced her into his home. Lamani raped her at home and threatened her not to tell anyone.
‘Kingdom of terror’
In 2017, Lamani was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for assault with a knife.
After his release on October 5, 2018, again at Elliot, Lamani approached a 23-year-old woman who was walking home alone at night. Lamani, wearing a ski mask, pulled out a knife, wrapped it around his neck, and dragged her onto a train track. He raped her and ordered her to leave later.
Only one of the victims knew the identity of the man who raped her. The DNA evidence linked Lamani to all other crimes.
After conducting a thorough investigation, Detective Sergeant Zamikhaya Sogiba from the Family Violence, Child Protection and Sex Crimes Unit at Elliot made a breakthrough when Lamani was identified as the perpetrator by the Forensic Science Laboratory in Pretoria as a “person of interest “in all cases of violation.
Subsequent DNA tests linked him to all the rape cases. He was arrested on November 17, 2019.
The state’s lead attorney, Nickie Turner, said Lamani had displayed a pattern of behavior during his reign of terror, inconsistent with his young age.
“He was always armed with a knife and had a particular modus operandi of attacking his victims from behind and not only raping them head-on, but also instructing them to turn face down or get on all fours so that he could penetrate. The accused They clearly sought to humiliate their victims in addition to the blatant invasion of their privacy, “he said.
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