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Alison Botha and the parole ordeal

───   OWEN KOCK 09:45 Tue, 05 May 2015

Alison Botha and the parole ordeal | News Article

Alison Botha from Port Elizabeth was raped and stabbed 37 times and left for dead by her attackers, and 20 years after her ordeal, they are up for parole.

On 18 December 1994, shortly after midnight she arrived home in Port Elizabeth, when Frans du Toit confronted her, wielding a knife.
 
He and Theuns Kruger then took her car and drove off with her, and committed the heinous crime. Their first application for parole after serving 17 years of their life sentence was unsuccessful but they plan on applying again.
 
The question now remains whether they have been rehabilitated and where does this leave Alison Botha. Owen Kock did some research, assisted by Mark Steenbok, and some of the content is rather graphic...
 

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