Family members 'kill' rape suspect at police base

SIX family members from Insiza District yesterday chased a suspected serial rapist into a police base where they allegedly stabbed him to death.

The man allegedly raped and stabbed a woman from the family last week, leaving her hospitalised.

Villagers told The Chronicle that Misheck Khanye (24) of Village 9, Allendale in Fort Rixon, had allegedly raped at least six women in the village and was a known thug but police never arrested him.

Witnesses, including his family, said everyone was celebrating that "the dog that had terrorised the community for so long, had finally died."

The villagers said the father of the victim (61), his five sons (names withheld to protect the identity of the rape survivor) and Mduduzi Nxumalo (24), ganged up to kill Khanye.