South African rapist Thabo Bester loses bid to block Netflix film

The rapist convicted of South Africa, Thabu Pester, lost an attempt to prevent Netflix from broadcasting a documentary on his life – including how he claimed that he died and fled from prison.

His lawyers argued that beauty and sowing were advertising, but the defensive broadcast giant defended his plan to launch the three -part investigation.

Bester partner, Ceverebrity Doctor Nandipha Magudumana, in the documentary, after helping him escape. It was part of the court’s attempt to stop the issuance.

In the court ruling on Friday, a judge said that the rape case was “firmly in the public domain” and that they failed to prove that their contact was urgent.

The documentary films series is now set on the broadcast on Friday.

Pester was convicted in 2012 for raping and killing his model girlfriend Nomfundo Tyhulu.

A year ago, I was convicted of rape and theft of two other women.

Bester became known as “Rapist Facebook” to use the social networking site to attract its victims.

He was serving a life imprisonment when he claimed that he escaped from the Aqsa Security Prison in 2022.

A fire broke out in prison, where the authorities found a charred body that they believed were Betir. However, it turned out to be another person.

It was not discovered for a year, and then he lived under the pseudonym in the main city of South Africa, Johannesburg, with the help of his partner.

The husband was arrested while escaping in the state of Tanzania in East Africa in April 2023, and he was deported.

They are currently in reservation, and they are waiting for trial on many charges – including violation of the corpse, and the defeat of the ends of justice and fraud.

They have not yet asked for charges.

The two submitted a petition to the court to stop the long -awaited documentary in Netflix, saying that he violated their right to a fair trial.

Judge Soliet Botterl, who delivered the ruling on Friday, said that the requests lack the insistence, describing it as “self -created.”

The judge said that Bester and Magodomana were time to launch their requests and “wait until the last minute” to submit it as urgent.

However, the court ruled that it was open to hear their objective victory, including a lawsuit against defamation, because the judicial precedent was clear in this.

“The demand for defamation and compensation for damage can be placed. I cannot find any way to check the words they find to make the doctor a guilty affect their right to a fair trial,” the judge decided.