WESTERN CAPE NEWS - A serial rapist and housebreaker, Aglin Davis (21) was sentenced to two life sentences in the Beaufort West Magistrates Court on Wednesday 7 March.
Davis was convicted of a string of charges including seven counts rape, murder, attempted rape, two counts of robbery with aggravating circumstances and five counts of housebreaking and assault.
The sentences for the seventeen charges ranged between six months and life imprisonment.
The Western Cape High Court, sitting at the Beaufort West Magistrates Court, ordered that all the sentences run concurrently with the life sentences.
“Davis’ reign of terror started on 11 May 2013 when he broke into a house in Prince Valley in Beaufort West.
It continued for three years until he was arrested on 28 December 2016,” said regional communications manager of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), Eric Ntabazalila.
The balaclava-clad man raped and beat up the women in their houses after breaking in at night. He also attacked some while they were walking alone.
He would threaten to stab or kill his victims before forcing himself onto them, blindfolding them with belts and torn t-shirts. In one incident he even invited a passer-by to join him in raping a victim.
One of his victims, a mother of a 6-year-old little girl was raped while her daughter was lying next to her.
He shoved a beanie into the mouth of one of his many victims.
She suffocated.
After finalising the sentence, Advocate Maresa Engelbrecht, said the charges facing him were very serious and included multiple rapes.
“The accused got away with this for nearly three years before he was caught. The victims were strangled and threatened with a knife.
"Several victims, whose houses were broken into, were robbed and raped.
"A life was lost and the deceased who was married for twenty years left behind four minor children,” she said welcoming the sentence.
The NPA also welcomed this sentence. “It is a fitting sentence for a man who has shown no regard and respect for women, their bodies, their human rights, their properties and their lives.
"He violated their rights, some were left with scars that may take years to heal but we hope that they will find solace in knowing that Davis may never violate another woman again,”said Ntabazalila.
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