Rapist and murderer Thabo Bester has again accused the state of seizing items belonging to him, this time revising the sum down from billions to millions.
The prison escapee made a brief appearance in the Bloemfontein magistrate's court on Tuesday together with his girlfriend Dr Nandipha Magudumana and 10 other people linked to his escape from the Mangaung correctional centre in May last year.
It was the second time he physically appeared in the court. The first was shortly after his rearrest in Tanzania in April with Magudumana. He has mostly made virtual appearances from Kgosi Mampuru prison in Pretoria. Bester took full advantage of his physical appearance on Tuesday to steal a chat with his incarcerated girlfriend and her father, and to raise several issues in court.
The first related to his “inhumane” treatment at Kgosi Mampuru, where he claimed he was kept in his cell cuffed for 23 hours daily, and the second about the whereabouts of luxurious items that were taken from him at the time of his arrest including laptops, cellphones, jewellery and foreign currency.
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