Four teenagers aged between 16 to
20-years-old were on Friday sentenced in the Grahamstown High Court for murder,
rape and robbery.
Police found a body which was burnt beyond
recognition at a house in Alexandria .
It is believed the 18-year-old was visiting
her grandmother in Port Elizabeth when she was
abducted by the four suspects.
Captain Mali Govender said shortly after
the incident the four suspects were arrested at a house nearby, still wearing
their blood stained clothes.
Govender said the victim had been abducted from the
street, while she was on her way home. She was taken to a vacant house where she was
gang raped, hit with a hammer over her head and thereafter set alight
" The police also found a hammer and the cellular phone of the victim in the possession of the suspects,” Govender added.
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