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Life sentence overturned after SCA finds rapist HIV-negative

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By Citizen Reporter

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16 May 2026

07:39 am

The court reduced the man's life imprisonment after new medical evidence showed he was HIV-negative.

Supreme Court of Appeal rape life imprisonment

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