So-called "birthday rapist" Mlungisa Mtshali was sentenced to 39 life terms for 39 rapes by the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court on Friday, SABC radio news reported.
He was sentenced to another 212
years on more than 70 additional
charges of sexual assault, kidnapping
and theft. The life sentences will run
concurrently.
Mtshali was dubbed the "birthday
rapist" because he reportedly told his victims it was his birthday and invited them to celebrate with him at a nearby restaurant or bar. He would later ask them to accompany him, in a metered taxi, to fetch his sister or a friend in Hillbrow or central Johannesburg, where he lured the women into a hotel room
and raped them.
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