The two men who kidnapped a four-month-old baby during a home robbery escaped through a hole in the fence at Leeuwkop prison in Bryanston, the department of correctional services said on Friday.
Department spokesperson Singabakho Nxumalo said Malibongwe Masondo and Luvo Mbali escaped from the centre’s courtyard by making a hole in the fence.
Masondo was serving 30-years for rape and robbery while Mbali was serving a 10-year sentence for murder.“Although the two inmates are back in custody, DCS is seriously disturbed by the incident and will ensure the investigation leaves no stone unturned,” Nxumalo said. Shortly after their escape on Thursday the two men committed a home robbery in Beverley, a suburb in Fourways, north of Johannesburg.Johannesburg metro police department spokesperson Wayne Minnaar said a domestic worker saw them from inside the house and locked the back door.Fidelity CEO Wahl Bartmann told TimesLIVE the owner of the home fled to the bathroom and called her husband and Fidelity Services.
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