The case was opened after the body of the man previously thought to be Bester was found to have died from blunt force trauma before his body was burnt in the Facebook Rapist's prison cell in May 2022.
JOHANNESBURG - Police said a case of murder was opened, after it emerged that the man dubbed the ‘Facebook Rapist,’ Thabo Bester, could have killed someone during his plot to escape prison.
He was serving a life sentence for murder and rape at the maximum-security prison operated by multinational private security company G4S.However, it said that recent information revealed that the body found in the gutted cell was not that of Bester and it did not match the DNA of a woman believed to be his mother.
“A case of murder is under investigation following the outcome of the DNA analysis that confirmed that the body of the deceased, which was found was not of Thabo Bester,” said national police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe. The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union said the possibility that Bester could have committed murder during his prison escape should not be taken lightly.
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