Serial rapist arrested in Dr Kenneth Kaunda District
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Police in the Dr Kenneth Kaunda District have managed to apprehend a 38 years old serial rapist for the alleged rape of 15 women.
Police Spokesperson in the North West Colonel Adele Myburgh said accused was arrested following investigation which found that that a serial rapist was active in the Potchefstroom, Ikageng and Klerksdorp areas.
Added to the matter, more than 15 rape cases were reported between September 2021 and October 2022, with similar modus operandi. It is said that the suspect would lure his victims by advertising jobs on social media, using mostly Facebook and targeting Zimbabwean ladies, who are fluent in Shona.
He was arrested on October 18, 2022 at his Alabama home next to Klerksdorp.
“A knife found in his possession as well as various cellular phone sim cards were seized. The team then proceeded to the suspect’s residence in Jouberton, Extension 11, where 11 bags, full of lady’s clothes (suspected to be belonging to victims), 8 cellular phones and more sim cards were also seized.”
“In one of the cases reported in Potchefstroom on Thursday, 9 September 2021, a 27-year-old woman, who was allegedly scheduled to meet a lady who promised her a job via WhatsApp, arrived at a shopping center close to the taxi rank in Potchefstroom.”
“The woman, who was from Johannesburg, met with a man as arranged by the lady she had been communicating with. She and the man boarded a taxi and alighted at Extension 11, Ikageng. The man allegedly took the woman to a bushy and secluded place, next to the N12 road, where she was ultimately overpowered, strangled, raped and robbed of her personal property.”
Col Myburgh added that the suspect is facing multiple charges of kidnapping, rape and robbery. He will be in police custody until November 1st following a short court appearance at Potchefstroom Magistrates’ Court.
