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Last May, South African prison authorities announced a man serving a life sentence for rape and murder had died in a fire in his cell. Dubbed the "Facebook rapist" for...
The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) says a Department of Correctional Services probe needs to be reopened into the officials who were on duty when Thabo Bester escaped from prison.
On Saturday, the department confirmed that the convicted murderer and rapist escaped from the Mangaung Prison in May 2022, and did not die in a fire.
Two men reported missing from a jail in Virginia were found a few hours after their escape at a pancake restaurant.
Police minister Bheki Cele says police are searching for convicted rapist and murderer Thabo Bester after DNA seemingly confirmed the charred body found in a Bloemfontein prison last year was not his.