Positive DNA link to Hankey rape accused

DNA samples taken from a farm near Hankey where a businesswoman was raped and shot – and her three young children tormented – positively linked the man accused of the March 2018 attack, the Port Elizabeth High Court heard on Thursday.

DNA evidence taken from the bedroom where the woman was raped as well as from her shorts and samples from a rape test kit were exact matches to those given as reference samples by Sebenzile Simane, forensic analyst Warrant Officer Kirstie Heynes said...

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