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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (4810)	2/20/2007 8:46:40 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20106

Teen guilty of raping missionaries Fri, 26 Jan 2007 A 19-year-old man was convicted on Friday of raping two Mormon missionary sisters, admitting that although he raped each victim only once he was also guilty of the rapes perpetrated by three other members of his gang. Judge Ron McLaren, sitting in the Pietermaritzburg High Court, convicted Lendelani Luthuli of 16 crimes committed at Port Shepstone on June 30 last year after Luthuli pleaded guilty to all 16 of 17 charges. His erstwhile three co-accused pleaded not guilty to all 17 charges levelled against them and McLaren ordered their trial to be separated from that of Luthuli. Luthuli was acquitted of a charge of attempting to murder one of the missionaries, who was shot in the body when she resisted a rapist. Luthuli said that he did not try to kill her. The State alleges, and Luthuli accepted, that each of the gang of four was guilty of rapes perpetrated by other members of the gang, making each guilty of eight counts of rape. The State avers that each was guilty of all eight counts of rapes as each kept watch during each rape, each remained nearby while the rapes were being perpetrated, and each prevented resistance or escape by the victims. McLaren called for a probation officer's report before Luthuli was sentenced on May 21. He is to be detained in the Port Shepstone police cells while the other accused, Siyabonga Nzimande (20), Wonderboy Mthembu (18), and Bongani Ntombela (23), are to be detained in Port Shepstone's prison. Luthuli has said he did not want to be in the company of his former accused. The three who pleaded not guilty are to be tried in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on May 21. State advocate Elsa Smith said the trial should not be held in the Ramsgate High Court near Port Shepstone. A psychologist had said the rape victims did not want return to that area because of the trauma they had endured during the outrages. The rape victim who was shot still has a bullet in her body, apparently as surgeons believe it would be more dangerous to excise it. The other crimes the three are charged with, all committed on the same day as the rapes, are the aggravated robbery of the missionaries; attempted murder of one of the rape victims; aggravated robberies of Joseph Moodley, Marcus Martin, Kamlan Naicker, Joaquin Venter and Robin Green-Thompson; and unlawful possession of a firearm. The rapes and robberies of the missionaries were committed in thick bush about 20 paces from the Port Shepstone-Harding road. The missionaries were walking towards a school when they were waylaid. iafrica.com