Central SA
Notorious FS gang members sentenced to prison─── KATLEHO MORAPELA 07:43 Tue, 26 Mar 2019
Members of a notorious gang that has been terrorising the community of Mangaung, Thaba Nchu and Botshabelo, in the Free State, have been sentenced to 145 years in prison by the Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court.
Police spokesperson, Peter Kareli, confirms six members believed to be part of a gang known as the BTK, aged between 17 and 23 years old, were sentenced by the Magistrate’s Court for murder, rape, attempted murder, assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and robbery. Their sentence comes after they forced their way into a house of a young couple in 2017, in Bergman, Bloemfontein, where they hit a 27-year-old man with a hammer and stabbed him over the eye. They then allegedly proceeded to take turns in raping his wife. Kareli further explains that the suspects then fled the scene and stabbed another victim they bumped into on the streets, about two hours from the first scene.
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