Convicted serial rapist, Amos Ganyeni Ngobeni, was handed 10 life terms and 235 years’ imprisonment at the Durban High Court on Wednesday.
Ngobeni was convicted on 49 counts that included rape, kidnapping, robbery, and burglary on Monday.
The Zimbabwean national’s violent rampage started in 2011 and lasted until 2016 when he was finally arrested.
During those five years, the 29-year-old Inanda resident robbed a woman old enough to be his grandmother and, in a separate incident, raped a seven-year-old girl.
Ngobeni would lure some of his victims with the promise of work before dragging them into bushes or to quiet sports fields, where he would threaten them with a knife or at gunpoint, and then rob and rape them.
In a statement released on Wednesday, Natasha Kara, regional spokesperson for the National Prosecuting Authority in KwaZulu-Natal, said DNA evidence had linked the accused to the complainants, enabling them to identify him.
- African News Agency (ANA)
