A South African murderer, Thabo Bester, who faked his own death to escape from prison has been arrested following a police manhunt, DailyMail reports on Monday.
Bester was nicknamed the "Facebook Rapist" after he used the social media platform to entice at least two women he raped. He was also convicted of murder.
He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2012 and it was reported in May 2022 that he died in a fire in his prison cell.
However, reports of him being seen in Johannesburg surfaced, and an investigation involving DNA samples revealed that the body discovered in the cell burned beyond recognition was not his.
Police said they were looking for Bester two weeks ago, and last week they raided a luxurious home he was thought to be renting in an upmarket Johannesburg suburb.
Bester was apprehended alongside Ms Magudumana and a Mozambican national suspected of assisting them in crossing borders and evading law enforcement authorities, according to officials.
They were found with several fake passports which were unstamped at the time of their arrest, about six miles from the Kenyan border.
Authorities have now started the process to extradite the fugitives back to South Africa, where they are expected to face several charges.
Announcing Bester's arrest, Justice Minister Ronald Lamola said, “ An official delegation from South Africa, comprising senior officials from the police and the department of justice and correctional services will depart for Tanzania on Sunday.”
My judgement
ReplyDeleteSince you have decided to fake your death in order to deceive this honorable jury , then you are hereby sentence to death by firing squad
He couldn't have succeeded in doing all that and escaping without an inside help, the government should find and persecute all those involved.
ReplyDeleteI read that 4 people had been fired, and the government has decided to terminate their contract with the company that manages the prison.
DeleteHis GF was arrested alongside him, and she is a doctor. I suspect she got a John Doe corpse from the mortuary of the hospital she works at, and paid the guards to do the swap and start the fire.
The girlfriend case is shocking involvement!!! A medical doctor??? Very popular socialite & active on social media instagram. Unknown to people & the public that she's a big scammer, living fake life, evil woman. She insured 3 dead people (her own father, brother, and another relative too) & got paid 3 million rands in total on that fraud. Her brother confronted her & has been in hiding with his family for a while now. Luckily her brother & father r still alive in all these evil actions from her & her lover going on. She went to her criminal lover's mum telling her that 2 daughters she have for supposedly her real & legally married husband who is also a medical doctor, ..now she said those 2 kids belong to this her criminal rapist, gangster, murderer boyfriend!!!!
Delete***currently police in south africa now is looking for her missing housemaid...apparently murdered too.
Too many evil! Atrocious Evil, manipulations, lies, scam committed by this 2 twisted & sick lovers. I'm so sorry for her 2 children born into this evil plot, to a greedy, fake woman & her twisted life.
Good news
ReplyDeleteWays of the wicked. They try to manipulate their ways out of consequences of their actions..
ReplyDeleteSame way Nigeria politicians pay for image laundering to journalists and bloggers to ignore their past and current evils.
Wicked man, he should be sentenced to death.
ReplyDeleteNonsense!. Good he was rearrested.
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