Fugitive Mark Scott-Crossley arrested

Mark Scott-Crossley‚ who was on the run from police‚ has been arrested in Pretoria.

Limpopo police spokesman Brigadier Motlafela Mojapelo confirmed that Scott-Crossley was arrested after he was handed over to police in Pretoria by his lawyer earlier today.

Scott-Crossley‚ convicted for murder in 2004 when he threw a worked into a lions den‚ is wanted in connection with a case of attempted murder.

Mojapelo said detectives were currently driving from Limpopo to Pretoria to collect Scott-Crossley‚ who was released in 2008 on parole.

“He will appear in court soon in connection with the attempted murder of Innocent Mabunda. The suspect is alleged to have knocked him over with his car in Hoedspruit. He then apparently reversed over Mabunda as well.”

He said the alleged assault began when Scott-Crossley accosted Mabunda outside a restaurant.

“It was during the alleged assault‚ that the suspect grabbed Mabunda’s cellphone from him [Mabunda] and threw it to the ground. The suspect then went to his car and allegedly used it to drive over Mabunda.”

Scott-Crossley was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2005 after he and two of his farm employees threw a former farm worker‚ Nelson Chisale‚ into a lion enclosure.

He appealed his life sentence at the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein and his murder conviction was set aside and substituted with five years’ imprisonment. He was released on parole in August 2008 and returned to his Hoedspruit farm.

– TMG Digital/The Times