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Selebi to be released today
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Fazda
Honorary Master
Didn't they say much the same thing about Shabir?
zululami
Banned
How about dying in prison? He gave up the right to be with his family when he took cash from a criminal and exposed this country to all security risks!!!
Convicted former police commissioner Jackie Selebi was granted medical parole on Friday, but it was up to his doctors to decide when he would be ready to leave the hospital, an official said.
Chairman of the medical parole advisory board, Victor Ramathesele, told reporters in Pretoria that Selebi would remain at the Steve Biko Academic Hospital until a decision on his health had been made by doctors attending to him.
"He has been released on medical parole, but has not been discharged just yet. Doctors who have been looking after him have ensured that there is going to be continuation of proper medication like any other South African.
"When the doctors feel he has to leave the hospital, they will exercise that clinical judgement at that point," he said.
Correctional Services Minister Sbu Ndebele said the medical parole advisory board convened in Pretoria on June 20 and deliberated on the fate of 12 applications by offenders, including Selebi.
"Six offenders were recommended for medical parole. Of these, two of the offenders were respectively released on the 9th and 12 of July 2012.
"Three offenders' applications were turned down. Mr Jackie Selebi will be released today and another offender is expected to be released next week. Three offenders died whilst the documentation was being processed."
Selebi was president of Interpol at the time of the investigation into claims that he received money from convicted drug trafficker and police informer Glenn Agliotti.
He was convicted of corruption on July 2, 2010, and handed a 15-year jail sentence.
Selebi appealed against the corruption conviction in the Supreme Court of Appeal. In December 2011 he collapsed at home in Waterkloof, Pretoria, while watching the appeal judgment on television. His appeal was denied.
This meant he had to begin his 15-year jail sentence for corruption. It was decided he would stay in Pretoria Central Prison's medical wing indefinitely.
At the time he had not instructed his medical team to apply for medical parole. Selebi had also been trained to administer his own treatment.
He suffers from diabetes and kidney disease.
Chairman of the medical parole advisory board, Victor Ramathesele, told reporters in Pretoria that Selebi would remain at the Steve Biko Academic Hospital until a decision on his health had been made by doctors attending to him.
"He has been released on medical parole, but has not been discharged just yet. Doctors who have been looking after him have ensured that there is going to be continuation of proper medication like any other South African.
"When the doctors feel he has to leave the hospital, they will exercise that clinical judgement at that point," he said.
Correctional Services Minister Sbu Ndebele said the medical parole advisory board convened in Pretoria on June 20 and deliberated on the fate of 12 applications by offenders, including Selebi.
"Six offenders were recommended for medical parole. Of these, two of the offenders were respectively released on the 9th and 12 of July 2012.
"Three offenders' applications were turned down. Mr Jackie Selebi will be released today and another offender is expected to be released next week. Three offenders died whilst the documentation was being processed."
Selebi was president of Interpol at the time of the investigation into claims that he received money from convicted drug trafficker and police informer Glenn Agliotti.
He was convicted of corruption on July 2, 2010, and handed a 15-year jail sentence.
Selebi appealed against the corruption conviction in the Supreme Court of Appeal. In December 2011 he collapsed at home in Waterkloof, Pretoria, while watching the appeal judgment on television. His appeal was denied.
This meant he had to begin his 15-year jail sentence for corruption. It was decided he would stay in Pretoria Central Prison's medical wing indefinitely.
At the time he had not instructed his medical team to apply for medical parole. Selebi had also been trained to administer his own treatment.
He suffers from diabetes and kidney disease.
So he was convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison on July 2010, from what I gather he appealed and stayed at home during this time and when the appeal was denied he was immediately admitted to hospital and now he is released after 6 months time.
So he served 6 months in hospital for corruption that normally carries a 15 year prison sentence. Am I missing something here??
I wonder what you get for murder if you are a senior anc card carrying member?
So he served 6 months in hospital for corruption that normally carries a 15 year prison sentence. Am I missing something here??
I wonder what you get for murder if you are a senior anc card carrying member?
mcryan
Expert Member
Just wow....
daveza
Honorary Master
How odd - the regime for kidney dialysis is three times a week.
Ironically unifying, isn't it?
Yeah...because the purpose of correctional services is to punish by incarceration people that are already dying. The epitome of humanity :erm:
blunomore
Honorary Master
Maybe his condition is much worse and he requires more.
My dad suffered kidney failure and he had regular dialysis whilst he was in hospital - I am sure it was more than 3 x per week.
Then again, my dad was not a convicted criminal trying to get out of jail !!
daveza
Honorary Master
The problem is not giving medical parole to Selebi .
The problem is not giving medical parole to the hundreds/thousands of others who should also qualify.
ttygt
Expert Member
Shall we send him a ticket to go see Batman?
"Six offenders were recommended for medical parole. Of these, two of the offenders were respectively released on the 9th and 12 of July 2012.
"Three offenders’ applications were turned down. Mr Jackie Selebi will be released today and another offender is expected to be released next week," Ndebele said.
"Three offenders died whilst the documentation was being processed."
Actually yes. Terminally ill people are not immune to punishment...
daveza
Honorary Master
That makes 3 out of potentially thousands.
And let me take a wild guess - his dialysis will be at a private hospital ?
blunomore
Honorary Master
6 were recommended .... 2 were released .... 3's applications were turned down - their maths suck !! What happened to the 6th prisoner?
So you agree then that CDL should be released?
daveza
Honorary Master
Selebi is the 6th (ex)prisoner
Who is CDL? Is he also terminal ?