Don't Miss
Home / Naija Gist / Foreign / Court insists a 76-year-old tennis legend must go to jail
must go to jail

Court insists a 76-year-old tennis legend must go to jail

Posted by: Lolade in Foreign Comments Off on Court insists a 76-year-old tennis legend must go to jail

Court insists that 76-year-old tennis legend must go to jail for raping underaged girls in the 80s

Today, South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal dismissed an application by disgraced former grand slam doubles champion, Bob Hewitt, to challenge his conviction for rape and sexual assault of some girls he coached in South Africa back in the 1980s and 1990s. .

Hewitt was sentenced to six years in prison but his lawyers argued that he suffered from ill-health and also pointed to the length of time between when the offences were committed and the trial. But three Supreme Court of Appeal judges said these had already been considered. .

The allegations first surfaced in 2011. Speaking on the issue, Judge Mandisa Maya said: “You must not overlook that the trial court could have imposed life imprisonment on Hewitt for the rape of a minor.” Hewitt has also been expelled from the International Tennis Hall of Fame because of his conviction.

Tagged with:

About Lolade

Viral Video

Support Ooduarere

SUPPORT OODUARERE
Scan QR code below to Donate Bitcoin to Ooduarere
Bitcoin address:
1FN2hvx5tGG7PisyzzDoypdX37TeWa9uwb
© Copyright 2014, All Rights Reserved. | Powered by Ọmọ Oódua | Designed by Ọmọ Oódua
x

Check Also

KEMI badenoch

Kemi Badenoch forgets to Mention the Anglo-Saxon barbarism and that London remains the world’s capital for money laundering – Femi Fani-Kayode

Kemi Badenoch’s living hell – FFK“I don’t want this country to turn into the one I ran away from”- Kemi Badenoch MP. The Right Honorable Kemi Badenoch MP, former Minister of Women and Equalities of the United Kingdom, and the newly-elected leader of the British Conservative Party deserves to be tarred and feathered for the sort of things she says about Nigeria. Apart from her insulting categorisations about Northern Nigerian Muslims, which I shall come to later in this contribution, ...