He would have planned it better if he really wanted to kill and rape the women, Thabo Bester said in a 2011 interview.
This is the logic used by the “Facebook rapist” Thabo Bester
in his attempts to explain how the death of his then girlfriend Nomfundo Tyhulu was an accident while they were fighting over a knife.former head of the police investigative psychology section Dr Gerard Labuschagne after his arrest in 2011. “I can't plead guilty to murder because I did not intentionally want to kill her. But I can plead guilty to bringing a knife into her presence.I'm not somebody you should worry about leaving a woman in one room with me, that I would rape her,” said Bester, who is on the run after one of the most audacious escapes from prison in South Africa's history.
“The murder [of Tyhulu], I feel it was just a pure, ‘we fight over a knife, somebody gets stabbed in the process’ and it was not ... If I wanted to stab her, I could have killed her in Durban.”“I could have killed her the first night we got to Cape Town. So that was not my intention. If I wanted to kill her I could have got her to Mthatha where there’s much less people and got her to a bush B&B and killed her there.
“So my intention was never to kill anyone. My intention was straightforward — I liked her. And things got twisted and we had a fight, the knife got out of hand. She was stabbed. I was stabbed in the process. I tried to stop it.”“I'm sure if I wanted to kill her I could have ... I'm not a stupid person. I could have done it in the way that the cops wouldn’t even know it was me. The rapes happened in a way that I did not know I was doing rape until I left the premises.
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