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Police hunt escaped prisoner

2008-12-22 16:03
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Cape Town - Mitchell's Plain police on Monday requested the Cape Town public to assist in the recapture a car theft suspect who escaped from police custody.

Melvin Claasen, 25, escaped from the Mitchell's Plain police station during an identity parade on Sunday.

Claasen, who is also wanted for murder, was dressed in a blue t-shirt, black tracksuit pants and white Nike takkies at the time of his escape.

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Claasen should contact the Investigating Officer, Detective Inspector Trevor Nash, on 021-370-1706.

- SAPA

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Craig says... @Garth the only thing I'm smoking is your a** - with hard facts. The khoisan's rock art does not depict any persecutions bro, maybe you need to learn how to read those yourself. Everything I mentioned is factual, the khoisan were killed away as you claim - they merged into us... and it's easy to check: you can take simple route and look at Mandela and Tony Yengeni, or you could go scientific and check archeological, historical, genetic data... (remember Desmond Tutu and his Khoisan heritage?) To repudiate another of your fallacies, it was whites who discovered enemies in Blacks. Blacks welcomed them and even invited them to share the land and its spoils, but the greedy European decided that he knew best - he'll simply take it all - by all means at his disposal. Read the article...

 
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