Police spokesperson, Mashay Gamieldien, says the crime happened in 2017 in Loopeng Village in Tsineng, where he assaulted a 33-year old female with a beer bottle, stabbed her eleven times and then raped her. 

The victim managed to escape and reported the incident to her brother-in-law and the police before she was admitted to a local hospital to receive medical treatment. 

Malebogo Lecholo was arrested on 18 December 2018 and was sentenced to life imprisonment on Wednesday.

OFM News/Blaine Jones