LISTEN: Hewitt's ConCourt appeal dismissed
Former tennis Grand Slam champion and convicted rapist, Bob Hewitt, has failed in his final bid in the Constitutional Court to stay out of jail.
In March last year, High Court Judge Bert Bam found the 75-year-old guilty of raping Suellen Sheehan and Theresa Tolken and of sexually assaulting another woman.
The victims were teenagers at the time and Hewitt was their tennis coach.
Hewitt was sentenced to an effective six years in prison for the crimes which were committed in the 1980s and 90s - and was also ordered to pay R100 000 to the Department of Justice, which would use the money for programmes involving victims of rape and sexual assault.
Women and Men Against Child Abuse Founding Director Miranda Friedman has welcomed the ruling.
Hewitt now has seven working days to report to the registrar of the High Court in Johannesburg to begin serving his sentence.