Rape witness vanishes

RELATIVES of a Beitbridge man accused of raping his 13-year-old daughter reportedly engineered the disappearance of the victim’s sister, who is one of the key witnesses to the ongoing case at the Beitbridge Regional Court.

The same witness, a minor as well, is also suspected to be pregnant and may have been made to disappear to conceal a related crime and also to weaken the case.

The investigating officer Constable Allan Kurado told the court last week that he left the witness at Takalani Children’s Home for safe-keeping, but she went missing from the home.

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