Foreign News
Body used in South African rapist’s prison break identified
BBC reported that 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.
Thabo Bester managed to break out of prison last year after faking his own death by setting fire to his cell. A body was found inside, which was initially believed to be Bester’s but it has now been identified as belonging to Katlego Bereng Mpholo.
His father, Batho Mpholo, says he needs “the truth and nothing but the truth”.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.
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.