The Kimberley regional
court convicted and sentenced a 24-year-old man Edward Emmanuel Gideon Mastas
to 9 years direct imprisonment for assault with the intend to do Grievious Bodily Harm and for malicious damage to
property on the 27th of June 2024. Police spokesperson sergeant Molefi
Shemane says the accused allegedly went on rampage on the 3rd of November 2021 when he accompanied a 45-year-old woman victim to town, bullying
her to go and sign and marry him at the department of home affairs. Shemane
says the victim refused and the accused allegedly straggled the victim. He says
after stabbing a 51-year-old aunt with a knife he then broke the window of
informal structure building and burned the victim’s clothes on the 5th
November 2021. Shemane says the following . . . "Insert" (KNIFE)
Journalist: Tsosangkgotla Mararang
Email: tsosan@radioriverside.co.za