Read the full judgment text of CACC 000513/1997 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 13 February 1998.
1. We will refer to the Applicants as they were in the court below. D1 was after a trial before Deputy Judge Hartmann and a jury convicted of one count of rape and one count of assault occasionally actual bodily harm. D2 was convicted of the same count of rape and two counts of assaults and she had previously pleaded guilty to another count of assault. D3 was likewise convicted of rape and one count of assault. D1 was sentenced to 9 years' imprisonment for the rape and 2 years for the assault wh