{"id":25168,"date":"2023-04-23T08:31:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T12:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=25168"},"modified":"2023-04-23T08:31:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-23T12:31:06","slug":"thabo-bester-body-used-in-south-african-rapists-prison-break-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2023\/04\/23\/thabo-bester-body-used-in-south-african-rapists-prison-break-identified\/","title":{"rendered":"Thabo Bester: Body used in South African rapist’s prison break identified"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The father of a man whose body was used by a notorious South African rapist to escape from prison has demanded to know how his son died.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Thabo Bester managed to break out of prison last year after faking his own death by setting fire to his cell.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A body was found inside, which was initially believed to be Bester’s but it has now been identified as belonging to Katlego Bereng.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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His father, Batho Mpholo, says he needs “the truth and nothing but the truth”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He says that police told him that his son had collapsed in the city of Bloemfontein and then died in hospital, before he was taken to a mortuary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“How did Thabo Bester get hold of my son’s body if he was in a government mortuary,” he asked in an\u00a0interview with the ENCA news channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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When the body found in the cell was re-examined in March this year after suspicions were raised by local media, it was found that the person had died as a result of blunt-force trauma to the head.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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