While prison officials were already suspicious a day after the apparent suicide, with no ID number to register the death at home affairs, the body was still released.
The death certificate, burial order and notice of death used by Facebook rapist and murderer, and now fugitive, Thabo Bester, in his elaborate escape from Mangaung maximum security prison, contained a series
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