Afrigather A person who escaped from jail in South Africa by faking his personal burning loss of life appeared earlier than Bloemfontein Magistrates Court docket on Friday.
Thabo Bester and his girlfriend, superstar physician Nandipha Magudumana, had been on the run till their arrest in Tanzania final weekend.
Bester will now face added fees of fraud, defeating the ends of justice, escaping, and violating a physique.
A member of his authorized crew mentioned the subsequent listening to can be held on Could 16.
Magudumana was anticipated to be charged with homicide as a part of the flowery jailbreak plot.
The ruse concerned getting a useless physique into the jail the place Bester was incarcerated to assist him stage his personal loss of life in a hearth and escape.
Bester was convicted on one rely of homicide and two counts of rape and sentenced in 2012.
However he was formally declared useless by suicide after the fireplace in his cell on the Mangaung Correctional Centre in Free State province practically a 12 months in the past.
A jail guard and Magudumana’s father had been charged with homicide in reference to the physique discovered burned past recognition in Bester’s cell.
The unidentified man died of blunt power trauma to the pinnacle earlier than the fireplace, police mentioned.
Particulars of the plot solely made public and pieced collectively prior to now three weeks and critics allege officers deliberately coated up the story.
