The Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services has appealed to authorities to leave no stone unturned in finding the perpetrator responsible for the death of a female correctional officer at the Leeuwkop Correctional Centre.<\/P>
Committee Chairperson Bulelani Magwanishe said according to reports the officer was found dead on Wednesday night at the centre.<\/P>
\u201cIt is suspected that the officer, whose lifeless body was found where she had been booked to work at the COVID-19 isolation ward, might have been strangled and raped. A blood-stained towel was found within the same vicinity, indicating that the perpetrator of such a vile crime had ample time to try to clean up the evidence,\u201d Magwanishe said.<\/P>
Magwanishe appealed to the authorities to find the perpetrator and deal with them harshly in terms of the law.<\/P>
\u201cI will request the Department of Correctional Services for a full report on this matter from the centre management of Leeuwkop,\u201d Magwanishe said.<\/P>
The chairperson expressed his sincere condolences to the deceased\u2019s family, friends and the DCS family for their loss.<\/P>
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Source: South African Government News Agency<\/P>
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