Rapist and murderer Johan Counter receives life sentence – SABC News

The Mossel Bay Regional Court in the Western Cape has sentenced Johan Counter to life imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to raping and murdering a child.

National Prosecuting Authority spokesman Eric Ntabazalila said Counter followed the 15-year-old victim out of a house on Groot Sergfontein Farm where they were drinking and raped and strangled her there on January 29, 2023.

According to Ntabazalila, the court has ordered that Counter’s prison sentences be served concurrently.

He says the court ordered his name to be placed on the National Sex Offender Registry and declared him ineligible to own a firearm.