Wow, ain't life strange? You start out doing one thing and then end up doing something completely different.
I mean once I wandered into the kitchen to make a cup of tea but ended up making a sandwich instead. Then there was that time I went into the garden to plant some peas but started chatting to my neighbour.
Crazy! A bit like what happened to Black teenager Phumzile Mabope, who went out to steal some avocados from the garden of a 95-year-old White woman but ended up raping and killing her instead.
As reported by South African news site Times Live:
A teenager who raped a 95-year-old woman from Uitenhage before killing her was found guilty on numerous charges in the Port Elizabeth High Court on Tuesday.
Phumzile Mabope‚ 19‚ had pleaded guilty to the murder but not the rape‚ saying he had intended to defile Maria Vermaak’s body after her death.
Judge Dayalin Chetty‚ however‚ said medical evidence provided in a postmortem report showed Mabope had raped the elderly woman before she had died. Handing down judgement yesterday‚ Chetty said Mabope’s version of events in his plea did not add up and should be rejected.
“I am satisfied that the deceased was‚ to the knowledge of the accused‚ alive when he raped her and that his denial to the contrary can summarily be rejected‚” Chetty said.
In his plea‚ Mabope claimed he had gone to Vermaak’s Luyt Street‚ Uitenhage‚ home on February 23 2017 with the intention to steal avocados from a tree on the property.
I hope they're not too hard on the kid. I mean that's the kind of mix-up that could happen to anyone. Also, maybe it works both ways, The next time he goes out to rape somebody, he might come home with some nice tasty avocados.
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| Mabope, victim of a weird avocado-rape-murder mix up. |
Wouldn't be surprised if Phumzile ends up moving to the USA under a future Democratic administration. That's how they like to get rid of their characters.
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