David van Boven, a double-convicted murderer from Cape Town, received a life sentence for several counts of robbery, sexual assault and fraud.
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The Wynberg Regional Court sentenced van Boven to life imprisonment on Thursday on three counts of rape, and he also received 15 years on two counts of robbery, and five years for kidnapping.
Among these charges is the attack on two sisters from Hanover Park in November 2019. IOL reports that Van Boven committed this crime just months after murdering 18-year-old University of the Western Cape student Jesse Hess and her 85-year-old grandfather, Chris Lategan in Parow in August 2019.
Sergeant Police spokesperson Wesley Twigg, a police spokesperson, says Van Boven went to the victim’s home in Hanover Park, where he threatened her and her sister. ‘He tied the sister up and repeatedly raped the 16-year-old victim. He fled the scene with the victims’ cellphones. The accused at the time of the incident was a person of interest in Jesse Hess and her grandfather’s murders. During court proceedings, it was proven beyond reasonable doubt that the accused committed the heinous crime.’
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