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Parliament heard how ‘Facebook rapist’ apparently had an enormous amount of money on his bed the night before he escaped from prison

Mangaung Correctional Services inmates were ordered to clean out convicted murderer and Facebook rapist, Thabo Bester's fire-ravaged cell.

Day two of the inquiry commenced with a debate between a committee member and G4S director of Care and Justice Services in SA, Cobus Groenewoud about why it should take 48 hours to obtain the name of the inmate who was moved from cell 35 before Bester was moved to that cell.

Inspecting judge of correctional services Edwin Cameron has told Parliament that the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services told G4S in November that the burnt body found in cell 35 was not that of Thabo Bester.

Inspecting judge of correctional services Edwin Cameron has told Parliament that the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services told G4S in November that the burnt body found in cell 35 was not that of Thabo Bester.

Former justice Edwin Cameron of the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services leaked the report that found that the burnt body was not Bester's.

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Police commissioner Fannie Masemola told Parliament’s justice committee that G4S was not very forthcoming during their probe.

An inmate who was at Mangaung prison the day Thabo Bester made his daring escape has given a blow-by-blow account of what he saw, while under-fire security company G4S shared a timeline of events on that fateful day.

The head of the Judicial Inspectorate of Correctional Services said Nandipha Magudumana should have been arrested last year for falsehood.