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Court ruling highlights police incompetence in rape case
Sunday Tribune
|August 17, 2025
WRONGFUL ARREST
ARAPE suspect will get paid R350 000 by the Police Ministry following a high court order in which the man sought relief for his wrongful arrest.
This comes after police effected the warrantless arrest of the man on mere suspicion nearly a year after the incident occurred, and in the absence of further evidence, which had eventually been added after his arrest.
In the High Court of South Africa at the Gauteng Division, Johannesburg, Judge Stuart Wilson had harsh words for the Minister of Police — a respondent in the matter — after the rape suspect proved to the court that he was wrongfully arrested.
The man was arrested on suspicion in August 2018, having been accused of raping a 9-year-old girl.
The incident allegedly occurred a year prior, in September 2017.
The child’s older sister reported to police that the minor girl had told her that the suspect had put his penis in her vagina while they were both at a friend’s house the year before.
This story is from the August 17, 2025 edition of Sunday Tribune.
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