Innocent man’s St Albans hell

Accused of child rape, he beat out his belief in justice on the cell walls

In prison he did not have a name. They knew him only as the man who beat on the walls with his bare hands – night after night.

The 41-year-old Uitenhage man spent 18 months in the St Albans prison awaiting-trial section on child rape charges – which turned out to be false...

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