KWAZULU-NATAL - PIETERMARITZBURG - SHOWER FETISH RAPIST CONVICTED

Durban - An uMlazi man has been convicted of multiple counts of rape and robbery, to the relief of his traumatised victims.

Xolani Richard Mfeka, 32, who forced his victims to shower after violating them, was found guilty in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Monday of five counts of rape and five counts of robbery with aggravating circumstances
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Mfeka denied his involvement in the crimes, claiming he had no idea how his DNA came to be found on three of his victims.

The court found that the State had proven its case beyond reasonable doubt and that Mfeka’s version of events was not plausible.

The State proved that Mfeka embarked on a “crime spree” between October 2012 and January 2013, terrorising women and their partners in Harding and KwaDukuza.

In the first incident on October 24, 2012, Mfeka broke into a family’s home in Harding, and threatened them at gunpoint.

He demanded cash and cellphones, and ransacked the wardrobes in the house where he found R110.
He then dragged the 45-year-old woman into the bathroom and raped her, before fleeing in her vehicle.

The second incident happened in KwaDukuza on January 17, 2013. He went to the room of the 34-year-old woman, and told her to open her door or he would shoot her.

When the woman opened the door, Mfeka marched her to a nearby sugar cane plantation where he raped her twice at gunpoint.

Mfeka then took her back to her room and ordered her at gunpoint to have a shower. He then fled with her cellphone and cash.

Fourteen days later, Mfeka entered a homestead in the Zamani area in KwaDukuza, demanded money from a 28-year old woman and her boyfriend then tied the couple up and ransacked their home. Mfeka then dragged the woman to the dining room, untied her and raped her.

Afterwards, he took her to the bathroom and instructed her to have a bath. He then tied her up again.
Mfeka stayed the night at the terrified couple’s home, and the next morning he took the woman back to the dining room where he raped her again, at knifepoint.

He again forced her to bathe before fleeing the house with the couple’s cellphones, cash and other valuables.

One of the women, who spoke to the Daily News last night, said she was relieved at the verdict. “Now this man cannot harm other women. He has destroyed my life,” she said.

Defence and State advocates will argue in mitigation and aggravation of sentence on. Tuesday.

VIA - iol.co.za