Questions raised over NPA dropping murder charges against Bester & Magudumana

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Questions raised over NPA dropping murder charges against Bester & Magudumana
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Convicted murder and rapist, Thabo Bester, together with his main accomplice, Doctor Nandipha Magudumana, are facing at least 12 charges following their arrest last month.

BLOEMFONTEIN - Convicted murderer and rapist, Thabo Bester, together with his main accomplice, Doctor Nandipha Magudumana, are facing at least 12 charges following their arrest last month.This has raised questions over why the National Prosecuting Authority withdrew the charge.

Bester, Magudumana and her father, Zolile Cornelius Sekeleni, were initially charged with murder after it emerged that the corpse that was found in Bester’s cell was that of 30-year-old Katlego Bereng Mpholo.• Thabo Bester escape: Correctional Services to cut ties with G4S in 90 daysBester and Magudumana face a graft of charges ranging from fraud, corruption, arson, the violation of a body and defeating the ends of justice but as it stands, they are not charged with the murder of Mpholo.

The charge sheet details a total of 16 counts pertaining to Bester, Magudumana, Sekeleni and the five former G4S employees.A member of the Mpholo family was shocked to learn that the charge of murder was not included on the official charge sheet.His body was unlawfully claimed from a mortuary and smuggled into Bester’s cell before being set alight.A memorial service will be held in his honour on Thursday afternoon.

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