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PE High Court judge, Jeremy Pickering has sentenced 33-year-old Xolile Tose to life imprisonment for the brutal rape of a six year old girl.
In convicting Tose on Wednesday, Pickering described him as a pathetic witness, whose evidence was, at times, evasive and improbable.
He said the little girl's blood on a T-shirt he had worn was pivotal to his verdict.
He had to discount the girl's evidence and her identification of him as her assailant, because a clinical psychologist had found that she was not competent to continue to give evidence.
Pickering said this meant that the defence could not cross-examine her.
