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Correctional Services has launched an internal investigation into the circumstances under which the Zonderwater Parole Board recommended that the 12-year prison sentences of two of the so-called Waterkloof four, be commuted to correctional supervision.<\/p>\n
A source told the Pretoria News that the chairman of this parole board, Hendrik Theron, had been suspended pending the investigation.<\/p>\n
But the Chief Deputy Commissioner of Correctional Services, Zachary Modise, yesterday vehemently denied this.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no such thing. There will be an internal investigation into the circumstances of their release.We are dealing with it right now. But nobody has been suspended or disciplined. I don\u2019t know why the media is creating all these rumours,\u201d Modise said.<\/p>\n
The investigation will be an internal process and the findings will not be made public, he said. \u201cWe need to get to the bottom of this and therefore we will conduct the internal investigation. I again want to put it emphatically that nobody has been suspended. Nobody is in trouble so far and you should not jump to conclusions.\u201d<\/p>\n
It is understood that there is great unhappiness in the department after the sentences of Reinach Tiedt and Gert van Schalkwyk were converted to correctional supervision. Modise earlier confirmed the department would proceed with an urgent review of the decision by the Pretoria Regional Court to convert the pair\u2019s sentences.<\/p>\n
The question whether Section 276 (A) of the Criminal Procedure Act – which states that an offender\u2019s prison sentence could be converted to correctional supervision under certain circumstances – was applicable in this instance, is being challenged.<\/p>\n
Neither Tiedt nor Van Schalkwyk approached the court to have their sentences converted.<\/p>\n
Prison officials at Zonderwater Prison in Cullinan, where they were held, submitted statements to that parole board, hailing the pair as exemplary prisoners.<\/p>\n
Various psychological reports on the pair, also described them as being rehabilitated and that they have learned from the mistakes they had made when they in 2001, as teenagers, took part in the murder of a homeless man in a park in Moreleta Park.<\/p>\n
They were convicted, together with their former friends Frikkie du Preez and Christoff Becker, of kicking the man, whose identity was never established, to death. Three of the accused were 16 at the time. Tiedt was 15.<\/p>\n
The four pleaded not guilty to the murder. They said they did assault the man whom they suspected of being a housebreaker, but he was still alive when they left him in the park. They denied that the body police later found in the park, was that of the man they had assaulted, as the injuries differed.<\/p>\n
At the time of their trial, they said their victim had suffered blows to the face, while the body found at the scene had no facial injuries. But the State said the coincidence was too big that another man would be found dead at the same spot where they had left their victim. The prosecution at the time, this time came to the aid of the pair and last week supported the conversion of their sentences.<\/p>\n
They had served three years and four months of their sentences and will have to now subject themselves to stringent conditions while out of prison. This includes house arrest and community service.<\/p>\n
It is believed that Becker and Du Preez, who are held at Pretoria Central Prison, will also apply to have their sentences commuted to correctional supervision. Their applications are expected only early next year. – Pretoria News<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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