A 33-year-old man identified as Mhlonishwa Elias Mathebula who has just one arm had been arraigned, charged and convicted by police officials for raping no fewer than eighteen women in South Africa.
It was learnt that the rapist’s right arm had been amputated from elbow in his childhood days after he was electrocuted.
This seemed less of a challenge to the rapist whose kept on stalking and raping women numbering up to eighteen and aged between 14 and 40.
Mathebula managed to evade capture for many years, but on Friday, November 31, 2014, Mathebula was finally put behind bars according to reports.
An 18 count charge of rape was brought up against Mathebula at the Scottburgh Regional Court and he pleaded guilty to all.
The court in their verdict had listed Mathebula at the National Sex Offender Registry and declared him unfit to work with children after passing a nine life sentences plus 90 years imprisonment for a total of 315 years to the rapist.
Police investigations revealed that Mathebula approached his victims on the streets of Umzinto, Hibberdene, Dududu, and Msinsi, in the early hours of the day and dragged them to the nearby fields, where he raped and assaulted them.
It was also revealed by investigators that some victims reported that a second man accompanied the suspect who the police is yet to identify.
