The Greytown regional court in KwaZulu-Natal has sentenced a 29-year-old man to life imprisonment after he was convicted of raping his eight-year-old daughter. 

According to police spokesperson Const Siyabonga Nkwanyana, the man, who cannot to be named to protect the identity of his daughter, raped the girl in March. 

Nkwanyana said the man arrived at a residence, where the victim was staying with her aunt, under the influence of alcohol and demanded to sleep with the girl in his room. 

“The following morning the aunt noticed the child was struggling to walk. Upon questioning her, the child revealed that she had been raped by her father,” he said. 

A case of rape was immediately opened and assigned to a dedicated detective, Sgt Richard Gilden of the Greytown family violence, child protection and sexual offences unit.