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Former tennis legend to apply for leave to appeal

Former tennis legend Bob Hewitt will today apply for leave to appeal his six year jail sentence in the North Gauteng High Court.

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

He 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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