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Paul Haisosvi

Plaxcedes Hove Court Reporter—
A POLICE officer based at Tshabalala Police Station yesterday appeared in court facing three counts of raping his THREE teenage nieces.  Paul Haisosvi, 55, lived with the girls aged 11, 14 and 17, Western Commonage provincial magistrate Willard Maphios Moyo heard. Haisosvi, represented by lawyer Costa Dube, pleaded not guilty to all three counts. He was granted $100 bail and remanded to October 3 pending his trial.

Prosecuting, Kingstone Mkanganwi said Haisosvi raped his nieces between 2012 and March 2014.
“Haisosvi stayed with his nieces who are children to his wife’s siblings. He had sexual intercourse with all of them without their consent,” he said.

The court heard that on different dates unknown to the state at ZRP Tshabalala Police Station, Haisosvi had sexual intercourse with his nieces.
The 14-year-old was allegedly raped in a car which was parked outside his house whilst others were asleep. He would sneak into the other two girls’ blankets and rape them, the court heard.

Haisosvi said the children were fabricating the stories. “These are spirits that are following me. Whoever is doing this is very good at his work. I didn’t sleep with any of these girls but I helped them, sheltered them and gave them food and this is how they thank me,” he protested.

“We stayed in a one-roomed house and how could I possibly rape them. I slept with my wife whilst they slept on the floor. How could I leave my wife on the bed and rape them on the floor in the same room?”

The magistrate granted him bail on condition that he does not interfere with state witnesses.
“You’re not to tamper with any evidence or interfere with the state witnesses. You must report at ZRP Tshabalala every fortnight on Fridays and you should not leave the country before the case is resolved.”