Alleged cop killer escapes from East London court while appearing on rape charge News24 Wire Picture: iStock Sondlo is accused of raping a 15-year-old boy on 6 December 2013, near Quigney, a suburb in East London. Police in the Eastern Cape are mum about how a suspect, accused of raping a minor boy, managed to escape custody at the East London Magistrate’s Court on Thursday. A source with knowledge of the escape, said that the suspect, Mcebisi Sondlo, came out of the holding cells on 17 December, held the court staff at gunpoint and subsequently fled the building. It’s unknown how Sondlo allegedly came to be in possession of a firearm while in the holding cells.