Springbok power-boat pilot Lionel Ball to report to prison

01 Feb 2016 | Admin Author

Former Springbok power-boat pilot, Lionel Ball has less than two days to report to the police station in Durbanville, where he now lives, to start serving a 15 year prison sentence for rape.

His appeal against his conviction and sentence for the rape of an 11-year old girl more than three years ago in East London, was turned down by a full bench of the High Court in Grahamstown on Thursday.

Ball was successful however, along with his former domestic worker, Nokuszol Ntonga, of having a separate conviction of sexual exploitation of a child overturned.

State advocate, Buks Coetzee says they're very happy with the outcome of a case they believed in from the beginning.

"The only option now is to petition the supreme court of appeal in Bloemfontein for leave to appeal to that court and he will have 21 days for that petition to be launched at the court, in the meantime if he would like to have his bail conditions extended he will have to apply to the full bench to be let out on bail again" Coetzee said.