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A South African assassin who faked his personal dying to flee from jail has been arrested following a police manhunt.
Thabo Bester, 35, dubbed the ‘Fb Rapist’ as he used the social media platform to lure at the very least two ladies he was convicted of raping. He was additionally discovered responsible of killing one.
He was arrested in Tanzania. South African officers are actually planning to go to Tanzania to start to extradite
Bester was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2012 and it was reported in Might final yr that he died in a fireplace in his jail cell.
Experiences surfaced of him being seen in Johannesburg and an investigation together with DNA samples confirmed that the physique discovered burned past recognition within the cell was not his.
Two weeks in the past police stated they have been chasing Bester and final week they raided an expensive house he was believed to have been renting in an upmarket Johannesburg suburb.
Bester was apprehended along with his girlfriend Nandipha Magudumana, a widely known superstar physician in South Africa who’s believed to have assisted them in crossing borders to evade regulation enforcement authorities, officers introduced.
They have been discovered with a number of faux passports which have been unstamped on the time of their arrest, about six miles from the Kenyan border.
Authorities have now began the method to extradite the fugitives again to South Africa, the place they’re anticipated to face a number of expenses.
‘An official delegation from South Africa, comprising senior officers from the police and the Division of Justice and correctional companies will depart for Tanzania on Sunday,’ Justice Minister Ronald Lamola stated Saturday, saying Bester’s arrest.
The South African information outlet GroundUp reported that for almost a yr after his jail escape, Bester had lived a lavish way of life with Magudumana in Johannesburg’s upmarket Hyde Park suburb.
Whereas in jail, Bester used a laptop computer he had for research to run an occasion and manufacturing firm, GroundUp reported. At one level he addressed a convention from his jail cell, telling attendees that he was talking from the U.S., it reported.
Bester’s elaborate escape from jail has raised many questions on the doable involvement of jail officers.
At the very least three officers have been fired from the Mangaung Correctional Centre from the place Bester escaped, in accordance with native studies.
The jail was managed privately by the British-based G4S safety agency.
The South African authorities has now taken over administration of the utmost safety jail and has introduced that the G4S contract to handle the jail won’t be renewed when it expires in 2026.
