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Case against ex-PRASA security guard accused of serial rape set to continue

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Sipho Phiri

Case against ex-PRASA security guard accused of serial rape set to continue! The Pretoria High Court on Tuesday is expected to hear the testimony of the investigating officer in the case of a former Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) security guard accused of raping 37 women.

Sipho Phiri faces 117 charges including rape and kidnapping of 37 women.

He was arrested in 2023 after a crime spree that started in 2018.

Former PRASA security guard

PRASA security guard

The alleged serial rapist allegedly targeted women in Daveyton and Tembisa.

The court heard Phiri’s modus operandi was offering women a lift, when they got into his car he would threaten them with a gun before raping them.

Some of his victims are 14 years old.

Boksburg court

An investigating officer from the Benoni family violence and child protection and sexual offences unit is set to testify on Tuesday.

The officer forms part of more than 40 witnesses who have testified in the trial.

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