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Sunday rapist given five life terms


The man dubbed the Sunday rapist has been sentenced to five terms in jail.

Johannes Jacobus Steyn was also sentenced to an additional 175 years in jail.

He was found guilty on 33 charges, including murder, in the High Court sitting in Alberton.

Judge Sita Kolbe found him guilty on all but four of the 37 charges against him.

Two of those were changed from rape to sexual assault and one was changed from murder to culpable homicide.

The abductions took place between 2008 and 2011 and the girls were aged between 11 and 18, including 16-year-old Louise de Waal.

Sapa