South Africa police say prison escapee arrested in Tanzania
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African convicted murderer who faked his death to escape from prison has been arrested in Tanzania following a two-week manhunt, police have announced.
South African officials are going to Tanzania Sunday to begin to extradite Thabo Bester, 35, dubbed the “Facebook Rapist” as he used the social media platform to lure at least two women he was convicted of raping. He was also found guilty of killing one.
Bester was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2012 and it was reported in May last year that he died in a fire in his prison cell.