THREE men have been convicted by the Port Elizabeth High Court for raping two Belgian tourists in April this year. John Tee, 35, Benjamin Dirk, 29, and Donovan van Rooyen, 32, will be sentenced on Wednesday. Judge Frank Schoon said although only Tee had committed the rapes, Van Rooyen and Dirk were found guilty of common purpose, meaning they had known the two women would be raped and had done nothing to stop it. The judge said they had also intended raping the women, but in the end had not done so. The two women were raped, beaten and whipped by the three men in the Storms River district on April 3. The women escaped from their attackers the following morning when the vehicle stopped at a Kareedouw filling station for petrol. The two women locked themselves in the toilet and police were alerted by petrol attendant Izak Mateza. Tee, Dirk and Van Rooyen were arrested on April 4.