GEORGE NEWS - Alison Botha, whose miraculous survival of brutal rape and attempted murder in December 1994 stunned the world, is facing the fact that her attackers, Theuns Kruger and Frans du Toit, are free on the street.
The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) announced on Tuesday 4 July that Kruger and Du Toit have been placed on parole, effective from that date. They were sentenced to life imprisonment by the Port Elizabeth High Court in August 1995.
A source close to Botha told the paper yesterday, Wednesday 5 July, that Alison is "scared and overwhelmed". She said Alison was advised a little over a week ago that Frans du Toit's parole had been granted.
She approached an attorney, Tania Koen, who on a pro bono basis has been trying to obtain more information and details about the grounds for his release.
It was only on Monday 3 July, when someone asked her if it was true that Theuns Kruger was also getting parole, that she heard about his release. "So that has been a bit of a shock to Alison," said the source.
Kruger and Du Toit abducted Botha (then aged 26) in Noordhoek near Ghqeberha before they raped her, stabbed her 30 times in the stomach and slit her throat multiple times, nearly beheading her. They left her for dead, but she managed to scribble their names in the sand before crawling to the side of the road where a passer-by picked her up and took her to hospital.
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