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News24 reports that contradictory reports on Bereng Mpholo's cause of death have prompted the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to drop its case – at least, for now – that he was murdered to enable rapist and killer Thabo Bester to fake his death and escape from the Mangaung Correctional Centre.
According to law enforcement and prosecution sources, investigations have uncovered documentation recording three different causes of death for the 32-year-old father, namely unnatural, natural and unspecified. And, while an autopsy conducted on the young man have determined he died from blunt force trauma to the right side of his head, the NPA has elected not to persist with a murder charge in relation to his death until the contradictions in these documents are investigated and explained. The State does not name Bereng Mpholo in its charge sheet against Bester, his doctor girlfriend Nandipha Magudumana and her father Zolile Sekeleni, former G4S prison warders Senohe Matsoara and Motenyane Masukela, CCTV technician Teboho Lipholo and former Mangaung Correctional Centre control room operators Nastassja Jansen and Tieho Makhotsa. Instead, in the 16 charges it is pursuing against these accused, the NPA alleges an unidentified body – later identified by the police as being that of Bereng Mpholo – was set alight in Bester's cell to create the false impression he had died in jail, when he had, in fact, escaped. The accused will appear on 11 and 12 May for bail hearings and will remain in custody.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Karyn Maughan & Alex Patrick at News24 (subscriber access only)
- Lees ook, Dr. Nandi bly nog langer agter tralies, by Maroela Media
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