The Pretoria magistrate’s court heard on Wednesday how a 46-year-old man, who was found guilty of the rape of two minor girls aged 11 and 13, was discovered covered in blood after people stormed into his room at the Pretoria Hotel. He was out on parole for another rape when the acts were committed.

A family member of the victims claimed after court proceedings that Amos Khumalo blatantly lied in his pre-sentence report, compiled by a social worker and partially read in court on Wednesday.

Khumalo was charged with kidnapping the girls from Lotus Gardens, near Atteridgeville, before taking them to a liquor store and then going to book a room at the Pretoria Hotel where he raped both in November 2020.

In the pre-sentence report, Khumalo claims he told police that on the day of the rape, he received a call from one of the victims’ mothers inviting him for drinks at her home.

After enjoying drinks, as he was leaving the home, he claims he was approached by the two minors asking him to take them out for the night.

The accused claims he turned them down, but the two girls insisted.

“He said he was astonished to see the two girls at the back of the taxi he was in,” the report read.

Khumalo said he then went to a restaurant in the Pretoria CBD and drank alcohol.

“The accused said he was drunk and could not walk properly afterwards.”

He then booked a room at the Pretoria hotel and the minors slept in the same room.

In the report, Khumalo claims that he told police the minors volunteered to stay with him. Previously, during guilty plea negotiations, Khumalo requested the families of the victims to drop the kidnapping charges and for him to only be trialled for rape.

Khumalo says he was found naked covered in blood around his private parts in his room by hotel security and patrons.

Hotel patrons and staff called the police after the 11-year-old went knocking on the hotel room doors, saying they had been raped.

After he was found in the room, he was broadcast live on a Facebook page and accused during the broadcast that he raped the minors.

The report was not read fully due to time constraints. Khumalo will be back in court on Monday for the reading of the full report.

The court heard that Khumalo was not a first-time offender and that he was previously convicted of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm and rape of a 62-year-old woman. At the time he raped the girls, he was out on parole.

In 2001, a murder case was opened against him in Attridgeville but the docket went missing from the police station.

Speaking to Rekord after the court, the uncle of one of the minors described parts of the report read in court as ‘devastating’.

“What he said is not true,” he said.

“He was on [Facebook] with blood on his pants and now he is saying he was drunk. How can one be drunk and be able to go to the hotel and make a booking? Everything that he is saying is all just lies.”

He said the families were frustrated with the delays in Khumalo’s sentencing.

“The trial is finished. All evidence was gathered. Right now, it’s up to the law to take its course irrespective of what he is saying. He can lie and lie but all facts have been proven through the lab tests. We do not have to worry about what he is saying, I do not think it will affect the results of the judgment.”

Previously, in an interview with Pretoria Rekord, the hotel’s general manager Elphas Shabangu said when Khumalo booked a room with them he claimed he was the father of the girls and that their mother was drunk and could not take care of them.

Shabangu said Khumalo did not act suspiciously and followed all the steps for registration.