It has been recommended that Clive Derby-Lewis get parole

It has been recommended that Clive Derby-Lewis get parole

Pretoria – It has been recommended that Clive Derby-Lewis get parole, Justice Minister Michael Masutha said on Monday. “There has been a positive recommendation, in other words recommending the release on parole,” he told reporters in Pretoria.

“We are looking at those matters also in the light of the submissions from the SACP… who submitted a memorandum.”

Derby-Lewis provided the gun Polish immigrant Janusz Walus used to shoot and kill SA Communist Party secretary general Chris Hani in the driveway of his Boksburg, East Rand, home on 10 April 1993.

Derby-Lewis was sentenced to 25 years behind bars and has already served more than 20 years of his sentence.

The 78-year-old former Conservative Party MP has twice been denied medical parole.

He has been stabbed twice by inmates at the Kgosi Mampuru prison in Pretoria.

Masutha on Monday said submissions by the affected families would be taken into consideration before a decision to release Derby-Lewis on parole was made.

“We will certainly make sure that when we eventually come to look at how best to process those issues, consideration is given at least to those submissions… and any other relevant advice that can assist us in finalising those matters.”

He said the emotional nature and political sensitivity of the matter would be considered…

– SAPA

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