[caption id="attachment_135103" align="alignright" width="311"] Mzwandile Mpukwana[/caption]
A Middledrift Correctional Centre offender, Mzwandile Mpukwana, 44, who was serving a seven-year sentence for housebreaking and theft, escaped yesterday.
According to the Department of Correctional Services, Mpukwana was sentenced on September 18 2010.
“The last time he was seen, he was with a group of ten offenders working at the garden within the correctional facility precinct. Our security officials together with the police are on the lookout for the escapee,” spokesperson for the department Zama Feni said.
“If anybody happens to see a suspicious looking person in your community or anywhere, then they are encouraged to call or report the matter to the nearest police.
“We find it shocking that someone who was on the verge of completing his sentence and due to be released in September could engage himself in an activity of this nature,” Feni added.
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