Bulawayo High Court has dismissed an appeal against conviction and a 20 year jail term by an HIV positive rapist who turned his 15 year old sister in law into a sex slave for four years.
Nephat Sibanda, 54, was convicted of rape in 2011 and sentenced him to an effective 20 years in jail.
In the court papers, Sibanda who was a self actor is the appellant while the state was cited as the respondent.
Sibanda, in his grounds of appeal, argued that the evidence by state witnesses was fraught with lies and inconsistencies. He said his conviction was founded on tainted and inadmissible evidence.
Sibanda accused his sister in law of having misled police in their investigations. He also disputed the evidence in the medical report which showed that he had raped the victim.
The court heard that Sibanda was convicted under that allegations that between 2007 and 2011 he raped the girl a number of times in the absence of his wife.
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