Johannesburg – Two men slapped with eight life sentences for raping paramedics had their dreams of freedom crushed when a judge dismissed their application for leave to appeal against their conviction and sentence.
Despite protests of innocence and distancing themselves from the crimes, the same judge who convicted and sentenced them in 2012 dismissed their appeal on Friday in the South Gauteng High Court in Joburg.
Judge Sherise Erica Wiener said no other court would come to a different outcome.
However, the pair’s efforts were not all wasted as Judge Wiener granted them leave to appeal against their 15-year sentence for illegal possession of a firearm.
On March 5, 2010, the paramedics were attending to a toddler with burn wounds in Durban Deep, Roodepoort, when Richard Luruli and Michael Khorombi, who were armed, approached them and robbed and raped them…
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