South African serial rapist gets 1535 jail term

February 20, 2015 18:09

A 35-year-old serial rapist has been jailed for 1,535 years by a South African court for sexually assaulting as many as 29 women over a period of five years, media reports said today.

Albert Morake's reign of terror in the Tembisa area of Gauteng province began in 2007 and ended with his arrest in 2012. He was sentenced by the Johannesburg high court yesterday to 1,535 years of imprisonment including 30 life terms for 30 counts of rape, 360 years for robbery and several hundred more for crimes including attempted murder, kidnapping and robbery.

The media said Morake is one of this country's worst serial rapists and his sentence is one of the most severe.

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