Op-Ed: When the perpetrator is a victim – jailed for a crime he did not commit

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    Op-Ed: When the perpetrator is a victim – jailed for a crime he did not commit

    There was no one to meet disgraced '"rapist'" Daniel Brilliance Sehloho at Johannesburg prison's gates after Pretoria High Court Judge Edwin Molahlehi over-turned his conviction and life sentence last year and found him not guilty of raping and assaulting a 15-year-old girl.* So, after spending five years in jail for a crime he always claimed he did not commit, a kindly warder gave Sehloho R20 and a lift to the nearest taxi-rank. Then he cadged R120 from a stranger for the ride to his uncle's Springs home where he arrived unheralded. Denied bail and forced to await trial for three ...


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