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TimesLive reports that G4S Correction Services on Tuesday said it had dismissed three of its employees in relation to their conduct on the day that a fire broke out in the cell of convicted murderer and serial rapist Thabo Bester in May last year.
G4S is the contractor of the privately run Mangaung maximum-security prison where Bester was serving his sentence. Although the Department of Correctional Services and the police have claimed that Bester had already escaped from the prison when the fire broke out, G4S has maintained that he died in the fire. “On 5 May, after an initial investigation, G4S Correction Services (SA) alerted SAPS to a number of concerns surrounding the circumstances of the fire (on 3 May 2022). SAPS were supplied with relevant information and evidence. Three employees at MCC were suspended shortly after the incident. These employees were subsequently dismissed in September 2022, December 2022 and January 2023 respectively for matters relating to their conduct on the evening of 3 May 2022,” G4S indicated in a statement. The company said it had fully co-operated with the authorities and would continue to do so. “We await the conclusions from the police on their investigation into what happened on 3 May 2022,” G4S said.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Belinda Pheto at TimesLive
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