Lerato Mbhiza
Dr Nandipha Magudumana was denied bail in the Bloemfontein Magistrate Court on Monday because Magistrae Estelle de Lange said Magudumana played a huge role in the escape of her lover, Thabo Bester and can easily tamper with the evidence.
“The applicant is a flight risk and no bail conditions will assist. I find that she didn’t satisfy the court that she be released on bail,” De Lange said, handing down her judgment.
Magudumana applied for bail for the first time two weeks ago since her arrest in April together with her lover, convicted rapist and murderer, Bester, who faked his death at the Mangaung Correctional Centre and escaped in May last year.
Magudumana was allegedly a central figure in planning and coordinating Bester’s escape, the state describing her as a mastermind and she faces multiple charges of fraud, violating a body, corruption, assisting an inmate to escape, harbouring
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