Dr Nandipha Magudumana, the alleged accomplice and girlfriend of convicted rapist and murderer Thabo Bester, is challenging her arrest in Tanzania.
Thabo Bester prison escape
Magudumana has filed urgent court papers in the Bloemfontein High Court seeking to declare her arrest, “abduction” and deportation last month “wrongful and unlawful”.
The matter is expected to be heard on Thursday.
Magudumana faces multiple charges including fraud, defeating the ends of justice, and assisting an inmate to escape from prison in connection with Bester’s daring escape from Mangaung Correctional Centre in May last year.
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In her court papers, she wants “to declare the arraignment before the current magistrate in the criminal case nullified and set aside.”
Bester escaped from the G4S-run Mangaung Correctional Centre in Bloemfontein in May 2022, after it was initially believed that he had died by suicide after setting himself alight in his cell.
An investigation revealed that the charred body that was used as a decoy in the escape was that of Free State resident Katlego Bereng.
Bester and Magudumana were arrested last month, in Tanzania, after fleeing South Africa.
This is a developing story. More to follow.
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