A convicted rapist and murderer, Thabo Bester, who escaped from South African prison, under bizarre circumstances, has been rearrested in Tanzania.
Bester and two of his suspected accomplices were apprehended in Arusha late on Friday.
“They were heading for the border of another country,” South Africa’s Police Minister Bheki Cele said on Saturday.
They had arrived in Arusha from Dar es Salaam, Cele said. The men were in possession of several passports with fake aliases.
A convicted rapist and murderer, Thabo Bester, who escaped from South African prison, under bizarre circumstances, has been rearrested in Tanzania.
Bester and two of his suspected accomplices were apprehended in Arusha late on Friday.
“They were heading for the border of another country,” South Africa’s Police Minister Bheki Cele said on Saturday.
They had arrived in Arusha from Dar es Salaam, Cele said. The men were in possession of several passports with fake aliases.
According to South African media, Bester has been spotted shopping in Johannesburg’s upmarket Sandton area and has been romantically linked to a prominent celebrity doctor.
She and a Mozambican national were arrested with Bester in Tanzania.
Before his escape, Bester also reportedly ran a scam media business from prison using a false name.