Police captain accused of raping trainee seeks bail
A captain in the South African Police Service (SAPS) is expected back in court on Wednesday, May 14.
The police captain faces a charge of rape.
He was arrested by members of the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) on Wednesday, May 7.
According to the Ipid spokesperson, Lizzy Suping, the police captain is alleged to have raped a trainee at the Police Academy in Pretoria.
The case before the court states that on Tuesday, May 7, the 20-year-old trainee was walking with her platoon members to their sleeping quarters when she was called by the police captain to come to his office.
“Once in the office, the police captain allegedly locked the door and told the trainee that if she did not sleep with him, he would write a misconduct letter regarding an incident that allegedly happened in April, where the police captain was accusing the trainee of failing to salute him,” Suping said.
The police captain remains in custody until his next court appearance.
In a separate incident in the Eastern Cape this week, former police sergeant Thembalethu Gqeku, 50, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the brutal rape of a 17-year-old woman inside the detectives’ office of the Kei Mouth Police Station.
This incident took place on August 8, 2022.
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