SAPOHR welcomes Bester re-arrest

JOHANNESBURG - The South African Prisoners Organisation for Human Rights (SAPOHR) welcomed the re-arrest of the Facebook rapist Thabo Bester.

The organisation says government must send a strong message to anyone who may be thinking of escaping from the correctional service facilities.

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"We're also very saddened that they didn't take our advice a few weeks ago when we pleaded with him and his lover Dr Nandipha Magudumana to hand themselves over to the law enforcement agencies,"  Golden Miles Bhudu said.

"To go and show remorse and maybe negotiate a bargaining plea so that they could open the floods gates and tell everyone what really happened because it's only the two of them that know exactly what happened with regards to who started the whole thing, where was it planned, who executed it so that everybody gets an idea how this miraculous plot and inside botch job happened.

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"But they never took that exercise. Now they have been arrested and I hope that justice will not just be done but justice will be seen to have been done.

]"And it must be a clear message to everybody that wants to escape from legal custody that you can run, but you can not hide."