Prisoner says fake suicide, cell clean-up reported to minister – but was ignored
IN THE hours after Thabo Bester’s escape, prisoners were ordered to scrub his cell clean with boiling water before forensic investigators arrived at the Mangaung Prison and secured the crime scene.
It was a cover-up, claims an inmate whose cell was on the same floor as the “Facebook Rapist”, that also involved prison officials removing evidence from the burnt-out cell where a body was discovered on May 3 last year.
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