Hewitt granted leave to appeal jail sentence

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However, the application for leave to appeal the conviction has been refused.

Hewitt was sentenced to an effective six years in jail and R100 000 fine on two counts of rape and one of sexual assault on May 18.

He applied for leave to appeal his six year jail sentence the next day.

Hewitt was sentenced to eight years each for raping of Benoni resident Suellen Sheehan and Theresa Tolken  in the 1980s.

The judge also gave him two years for sexually assaulting a third woman in the 1990s.

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