Cape Town - The family of a suspected cable thief is demanding answers after he died in Goodwood Prison following an alleged beating by cops.
Relatives of Duncan Joseph, 28, say they got a fright when officials came to their Wesbank home last week to inform them that he had died just days after his arrest
Sister, Melissa, 31, says her brother was unemployed and skarreled for scrap metal, which he sold at a scrap yard in Belhar to provide for his one-year-old daughter.
She says he left home on the morning of 13 September and they were later told by neighbours that he had been arrested by Law Enforcement officers.
“All we know is that Duncan and two others were arrested. We didn’t go to court because we didn’t even know what station he was taken to,” said Melissa.
“Afterwards we heard he was taken to a scrap yard where they hit him.”
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