Jinxela can't be rehabilitated
13/12/2007 21:32  - (SA)  

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Johannesburg - Serial rapist Mongezi Jinxela - convicted on a total of 219 charges including rape, kidnapping, robbery and assault - was sentenced to life imprisonment and 20 years at the Johannesburg High Court on Thursday.

Handing down judgement, Judge George Maluleke said he recommended that Jinxela never receive parole as he would never be rehabilitated.

"You are a danger to society and you need to be removed for a very long time," Maluleke said.

"Multiplicity of the charges made it difficult for any consideration for sympathy. All victims wept when they testified in this court showing the extent to which you traumatised them," he said.

Jinxela, 39, a father of two and HIV positive, preyed on young women - most of whom were attending university.

His crime spree spanned 10 years, up to the day of his arrest in August 2004.

On Wednesday, the state prosecutor Louisa Loot revealed that Jinxela also had past convictions of theft and robbery.

On November 20 1990 he was found guilty of theft and on May 16 2002 he was convicted of robbery.

He claimed that all those he raped were his girlfriends - they, however, all disputed this.

Maluleke said because Jinxela had shown a disregard for public order and had not shown remorse, he felt obliged to impose on him 55 life sentences (for the 55 rape charges) and 1 092 years (for all other charges) imprisonment.

"But because you have one life, all the sentences will run concurrently and on top of the life sentence, you get a 20-year-sentence," Maluleke said.

The Judge said it was a frustrating reality that the heaviest sentence one could receive in SA was life imprisonment.

At the mitigation of sentence on Wednesday, Jinxela told the court that police should be more vigilant and ensure that no other man committed as many crimes as he did.

"I agree with you; in your own words police should be more effective in carrying out their duty.

"It is a great tragedy that one man could commit so many crimes as you did.

"I find you heartless, and as testified before this court, serial offenders don't rehabilitate easily," Maluleke said.

- SAPA

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