Thabo was ridiculed for complaining about the treatment he has been subjected to, especially when showing up looking so snazzy.
It seems like yonks ago that the convicted ‘Facebook rapist’ Thabo Bester was spotted shopping at Woolworths after everyone was told he had burned to death in his prison cell.
Moments after the arrest was officially made, approximately two dozen police officers in tactical gear stood with Cavalcante, yelling in jubilation and posing for a selfie.
New details are emerging of just how deep Thabo Bester’s scamming and swindling went, even while he was locked behind bars.
The idea that the ‘Facebook rapist’ could be a psychopath wasn’t mentioned by the Forensic Profiler who interviewed him, but the diagnosis does not seem so far off.
When “Mzansi’s Bonnie & Clyde” were caught, they apparently had several passports containing multiple identities in their possession.
While Thabo Bester’s escape seems isolated in its remarkable execution, there have actually been dozens of escapes reported over the years in South Africa.
Some commuters were treated to a spicy disappearing act during a morning traffic jam, watching as a criminal escaped the clutches of the South African Police Service.
The elaborate escape came to an end when Vicky White died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound and Casey White was taken into custody.
A prison guard and a convict accused of murder, who share the same surname but are unrelated, are on the run.
Dominic Taddeo has been described as “one of the most vicious hitmen of the Rochester family,” as well as a man who may be difficult to find.
On Friday, videos began circulating showing a large number of prisoners escaping from Malmesbury Prison. Thankfully, many didn’t make it too far.
When visiting hours ended at a prison in Brazil, guards spotted a rather odd-looking young woman heading for the exit.
Watch as two inmates, Justin Stumler and Jeremy Hunt, escape from Louisville Metro Corrections by hiding in food waste trash cans.
It’s been three weeks since fugitive gangster Rédoine Faïd made his daring prison escape. Now he’s been spotted in Paris, but not without some explosive weaponry.
Helicopter pilot Stéphane Buy was beaten, and his family threatened, when armed men forced him to help them break a French criminal out of jail.
Police are on the hunt for a notorious convicted gangster, who made his daring getaway from a Paris jail by helicopter over the weekend.
Back in 1962, three men escaped from the island prison of Alcatraz. No one knows whether or not they ever survived the ordeal, but now there’s a new clue.
When I think of ways to use peanut butter, a jailbreak wouldn’t immediately come to mind. Props to these smooth criminals then for their ingenuity.
There isn’t a more famous escape artist than Harry Houdini, but it turns out a local prisoner has been trying a few tricks of his own.
Those Canadians hey, they never cease to amaze. Just check out these prisoners going full Shawshank Redemption on their way out.
Following the confession of the woman who aided and abetted the now famous New York prison escape last month the story has become even stranger. She did what now?
Following the release of El Chapo’s actual escape video some animation fans got together and created their own take on the matter. Different strokes for different folks.
Let this be a lesson for future prison escapees – there are some things one shouldn’t do when on the run from law enforcement. Let’s raise a toast to this guy.
France got their own taste of an epic, Hollywood-style Prison Break this last Saturday, when one of their most notorious gangsters, Redoine Faid escaped from prison. Faid has claimed that his crimes are inspired by Scarface and Heat