State to declare state of readiness for Bester trial
The country is set to hear on Wednesday if the State is ready for trial in the Thabo Bester prison escape case.
All 12 suspects implicated in the matter are due to line up in the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court.
There were previously postponements to allow investigations to be finalised.
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Nandipha Magudumana, Bester's partner, was denied bail in the same court last month after she claimed she was kidnapped and taken against her will to Tanzania.
The rape and murder convict escaped from a Mangaung correctional facility in 2022.
"We only get to know on the 11th of October as to whether the investigations are finalised or if there is anything outstanding, what is outstanding," says spokesperson for the NPA in the Free State, Phaladi Shuping.
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"Then we can only get the say from the investigating officers as to whatever is outstanding how far is going to take them to finalise what is outstanding."
