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SAPS calls on community to help find suspects who escaped from custody

Suspects awaiting trial escape from Tembisa Court. Two were part of four who locked officers inside their police van during Rabie Ridge incident in November.

December 11, 2014
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The video of officers being locked inside their police van went viral.

Two suspects, awaiting trial, escaped from holding cells at Tembisa Magistrate’s Court after their court apperance for bail application yesterday.

SAPS Gauteng spokesperson Noxolo Kweza has since confirmed police are investigating a case of aiding and abetting escape from police custody.

Kweza said the two suspects were part of a group of four who locked police officer inside their own police van in November in Rabie Ridge.

A video showing the police officers being ordered to get into the back of the police van, soon went viral after the incident.

SAPS arrested three suspects soon after the Rabie Ridge incident.

SAPS urged persons with information to contact Crime Stop on 08600 10111 or SMS Crime Line on 32211.

 

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December 11, 2014
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Marietta Lombard

Editor-in-Chief of Caxton Joburg Metro with 26 years' experience in the community newspaper industry. I serve as Gauteng Director and deputy executive director of the Forum of Community Journalists and I am a press representative of the Press Council SA.
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