When alleged serial rapist Peter Dashboy Khoza was arrested he was found in possession of ointments including Zambuk‚ which he allegedly rubbed onto his victims’ private parts before raping them.
This was the evidence of investigating officer Captain Selaelo Ramabala‚ who on Tuesday testified in Khoza’s trial in the high court in Johannesburg sitting at the Palm Ridge Magistrate’s Court.
Khoza is facing 152 charges‚ including 46 of kidnapping‚ 29 of rape‚ 28 of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm and 19 of compelling or causing a child to witness a sexual assault.
He allegedly committed the offences between 2007 and 2013 in Tembisa and Olifantsfontein. He targeted girls as young as nine years old.
Ramabala‚ who works in the Child Protection and Sexual Offences Unit in Soweto‚ told the court that he had received five dockets from Kliptown to investigate and discovered that the modus operandi of the alleged perpetrator was the same.
In one of the dockets‚ he said he found a cellular phone number that one of the victims’ mother said she had saved after receiving a call from it.
The mother‚ who testified earlier‚ told the court that she had received a call from the number‚ but would not take it because she was scared. She said when her daughter came home and told her she had been raped‚ she informed her that her assailant had asked for her phone number.
Ramabala said he took the number to the service provider to get Khoza’s address.
“I got an address‚ but when I went to look for him‚ I was told he no longer lived there. I got another address‚ which was his mother’s and she told me where I would find him‚” he said.
Ramabala said after a month of trying to track Khoza down‚ he heard that he was arrested for another rape and would appear in Tembisa Magistrate’s Court.
“I went to court [on the day Khoza was appearing] and found the prosecutor. He told me that he was going to release him because there was no DNA evidence.”
Ramabala said he went into the cells where Khoza was kept and arrested him for the cases in Kliptown.
Ramabala said when he took Khoza to the Kliptown police station he was carrying a bag.
“When I searched the bag‚ found a small plastic bag‚ which contained [three] Zambuk ointments‚ Lip-Ice [two lip balms] and a rubbing ointment.”
Ramabala said he was shocked to find those items because the victims in the cases he was investigating had told him that Khoza had used them on their private parts before raping them.
The court also heard that Khoza was receiving HIV treatment.
The trial continues
Dashboy found with ointments he allegedly rubbed on his victims
When alleged serial rapist Peter Dashboy Khoza was arrested he was found in possession of ointments including Zambuk‚ which he allegedly rubbed onto his victims’ private parts before raping them.
This was the evidence of investigating officer Captain Selaelo Ramabala‚ who on Tuesday testified in Khoza’s trial in the high court in Johannesburg sitting at the Palm Ridge Magistrate’s Court.
Khoza is facing 152 charges‚ including 46 of kidnapping‚ 29 of rape‚ 28 of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm and 19 of compelling or causing a child to witness a sexual assault.
He allegedly committed the offences between 2007 and 2013 in Tembisa and Olifantsfontein. He targeted girls as young as nine years old.
Ramabala‚ who works in the Child Protection and Sexual Offences Unit in Soweto‚ told the court that he had received five dockets from Kliptown to investigate and discovered that the modus operandi of the alleged perpetrator was the same.
In one of the dockets‚ he said he found a cellular phone number that one of the victims’ mother said she had saved after receiving a call from it.
The mother‚ who testified earlier‚ told the court that she had received a call from the number‚ but would not take it because she was scared. She said when her daughter came home and told her she had been raped‚ she informed her that her assailant had asked for her phone number.
Ramabala said he took the number to the service provider to get Khoza’s address.
“I got an address‚ but when I went to look for him‚ I was told he no longer lived there. I got another address‚ which was his mother’s and she told me where I would find him‚” he said.
Ramabala said after a month of trying to track Khoza down‚ he heard that he was arrested for another rape and would appear in Tembisa Magistrate’s Court.
“I went to court [on the day Khoza was appearing] and found the prosecutor. He told me that he was going to release him because there was no DNA evidence.”
Ramabala said he went into the cells where Khoza was kept and arrested him for the cases in Kliptown.
Ramabala said when he took Khoza to the Kliptown police station he was carrying a bag.
“When I searched the bag‚ found a small plastic bag‚ which contained [three] Zambuk ointments‚ Lip-Ice [two lip balms] and a rubbing ointment.”
Ramabala said he was shocked to find those items because the victims in the cases he was investigating had told him that Khoza had used them on their private parts before raping them.
The court also heard that Khoza was receiving HIV treatment.
The trial continues
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