Johannesburg: Former tennis champion Bob Hewitt will be jailed in South Africa after losing an appeal yesterday against a six-year sentence for raping young girls he coached decades ago.
<img src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2016/jun/10Bob-Hewitt.jpg" alt="" /> Bob Hewitt&nbsp;
Australia-born Hewitt, 76, was convicted last year of raping two girls aged 12 and 13 in the early 1980s, and of indecently assaulting a 17-year-old girl in 1994. Supreme Court of Appeal judges said they had considered Hewitt&rsquo;s advanced age, but decided &ldquo;it is not a bar to a sentence of imprisonment&rdquo;.
&ldquo;The sentences fitted the criminal and the crime and fairly balanced the competing interests,&rdquo; the judges said. A frail-looking Hewitt, who was often accompanied in court by his elderly wife, had pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The appeal court said the former champion, who runs a citrus farm in South Africa&rsquo;s Eastern Cape province, did not suffer from a terminal or incapacitating illness and leads a healthy life.

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Former tennis champion Bob Hewitt will be jailed in South Africa after losing an appeal yesterday against a six-year sentence for raping young girls he coached decades ago

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