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‘You can call me Bester’

prison interviews with the convicted rapist and murderer

THE VOICE on the end of the line identified itself as that of the Facebook Rapist. It was Thabo Bester and he wanted a chance to tell his side of the story. The price was low – a few toiletry items for answers to any questions we wanted to ask.

Today he is known for orchestrating the most audacious South African prison break in living memory; bribing warders, torching a corpse in his cell in a high-security jail and then driving out the front gate. But on that day in the Drakenstein Correctional Centre in Paarl, outside

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