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/ 21 January 2011

How a rapist was caught

Hans Joachim Klaar has spent most of the past 11 years on the high seas, fleeing from justice. Accused of raping a Pietermaritzburg woman in 1996, the Swiss national was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment by a Durban magistrate in December 1998. Klaar appealed to the Pietermaritzburg High Court and in August 1999 his sentence […]