Thabo Bester: Body used in South African rapist's prison break identified

Thabo Bester remain at large for a year before being arrested in Tanzania earlier this monthThe father of a man whose body was used by a notorious South African rapist to escape from prison has demanded to know how his son died.

A body was found inside, which was initially believed to be Bester's but it has now been identified as belonging to Katlego Bereng Mpholo.He says that police told him that his son had collapsed in the city of Bloemfontein and then died in hospital, before he was taken to a mortuary.

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