The best Thabo: South Africa VIP specialist's dad charged over attacker's getaway

In South Africa, a notorious rapist and murderer's father and a prison warden have been charged with assisting him in escaping from jail.


Thabo Bester was captured in Tanzania on Friday having escaped from prison last May by faking his own demise in a fire and establishing a cadaver in his cell.


Along with his girlfriend, the well-known doctor Nandipha Magudumana, he was detained.


Her dad and a jail superintendent have now been accused of homicide, torching, and helping and abetting Bester's departure.


Senohe Matsoara, a suspended prison warden, and Zolile Sekeleni are accused of intentionally killing an unidentified person in March 2017.


In the city of Bloemfontein in South Africa, the two men made their court appearance before a magistrate.


They were given no additional information about the charges and were not asked to enter a plea.


The case was delayed to 17 April for a potential bail application.


After it was believed that Bester had died in a fire in his Bloemfontein prison cell, he remained at large for a year.


A manhunt was sent off last month after another posthumous examination uncovered the body was not really his.


Following their arrest last week, he and the famous doctor are now in a prison in the Tanzanian city of Arusha under heavy police guard.


Officials from South Africa have traveled to Tanzania to ensure that the couple is expelled.


South Africa, which has one of the highest rates of sexual assault in the world, was shocked by Bester's escape.


Due to his use of the social networking site to entice his victims, he earned the moniker "Facebook rapist."


He was sentenced in 2012 for the assault and murder of his model sweetheart Nomfundo Tyhulu. A year sooner, he was viewed as at legitimate fault for assaulting and burglarizing two different ladies.


In May of last year, it was reported that he had apparently set himself ablaze and been found dead in his cell at the Mangaung Correctional Centre in Bloemfontein.


However, towards the end of last year, local media began to question Bester's death.


In Spring, police opened another homicide examination after additional tests uncovered the departed was not Bester - and that the unidentified individual had kicked the bucket from gruff power injury to the head.


He has been accused of assisting in his escape by employees of the British-owned security firm G4S, which managed the prison where he was held.


It claims that three employees were let go as a result of the incident.


A parliament meeting on Bester's escape was missed by the organization's representatives last week. G4S has been contacted by the BBC for comment.


Over the course of the past year, there have been a lot of sightings of Bester, including claims that he was grocery shopping in a wealthy Johannesburg suburb and was living in a rented mansion there.