"Facebook rapist" Thabo Bester was sentenced to 50 years in jail in the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Friday, a report has said.
Earlier this week Bester pleaded guilty to two counts of rape and two of armed robbery with aggravating circumstances.
He addressed the court earlier today on the mitigation of his sentence.
He told the court he had been raped by his grandmother’s friend when he was young, raped several times by a man who promised to look after her, and gang-raped in prison.
Bester broke down in tears, asking the court for leniency, explaining the abuse he had suffered led him to a life of crime.
Bester has 14 days to appeal the sentence, the report said. - IOL