Read the full judgment text of CACC 000399/2005 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 19 April 2006.
1. In February 2005, this applicant pleaded guilty to an offence of rape. The complainant in that case was his daughter and for that offence he was sentenced to a term of six years and eight months’ imprisonment. Prior to the trial for that offence before a High Court judge he took steps to secure from members of his immediate family the production of false statements exonerating him from the rape and it is in relation to those steps, each of which constituted an act tending and intended to pe