Cape Town – Fidelity Service Group (FSG) has offered a R100 000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Facebook rapist Thabo Bester.
Bester was sentenced to life in prison in 2012 for the murder of one woman and rape of two models before he was reportedly found dead in his single cell in May last year.
He escaped from the Mangaung Correctional Centre on May 3, 2022, as confirmed by the department of correctional services after it discovered that the burned body found in Bester’s cell was not the “Facebook rapist” but that of an unknown man.
While the G4S has reportedly not been co-operating with the investigation into the convicted Facebook rapist prison escape, FSG has offered a R100 000 reward in an effort to help the police catch the fugitive.
“Help us bring this criminal to book. We are offering R100 000 to anyone who can provide us with information that leads to the successful arrest and conviction of Bester, otherwise known as the ‘Facebook rapist’,” the group said in a Facebook post.
According to News24, during a briefing at Grootvlei Correctional Centre in Bloemfontein on Thursday, acting national correctional services commissioner Makgothi Thobakgale said an investigation into the “embarrassing incident” found that the director of the prison had “lost effective control of the facility”.
Meanwhile, a track and tracing team has been established to find Bester, TimesLIVE. reported.
“We remain confident we will arrest the fugitive and bring him to justice. No stone will be left unturned in getting to the bottom of this incident,” the report quoted Thobakgale as saying.
The report said police have confirmed “detectives from the family violence, child protection and sexual offences and the organised crime investigations units in the Free State and Gauteng have been working together” to investigate the saga.
“A case of murder is under investigation after the DNA analysis confirmed the body … found [in the cell] was not that of Bester. A case of escape from lawful custody was also registered on confirmation by DCS,” the report quoted the police as saying.
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Compiled by Olwethu Mpeshe
