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EXCLUSIVE | Watch Thabo Bester 'confess' to rape and murder – and speak of his hope to be free

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Facebook rapist Thabo Bester is currently at large.
Facebook rapist Thabo Bester is currently at large.
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Days before he formally admitted to sexually assaulting two women, Facebook rapist and killer Thabo Bester told a police profiler he "liked" the woman he later pleaded guilty to murdering - and expressed the hope he would be free "one day".

"I'm sitting in a position where I want this thing to pass as soon as possible, but I also, as a human being, want to be one day free. That's despite the fact that I feel guilty, and I feel that I'm wrong," the then-23-year-old Bester told forensic psychologist Dr Gerard Labuschagne in one part of a recorded interview.

Labuschagne has since left the police.

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