Masutha: Selebi medical parole proved to have been right

Masutha: Selebi medical parole proved to have been right

Minister of Justice and Correctional Services Michael Masutha says Selebi's death is proof that granting him medical parole was the correct decision to take.

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Selebi died in a Pretoria hospital on Friday morning. 

 

The former national police commissioner was released on medical parole in 2011 after serving less than a year of his 15 year sentence for corruption.

 

Masutha says there was a lot of questions clouding Selebi's release and whether it was politically motivated. 

 

According to reports Selebi was suffering from diabetes and kidney failure 

 

 

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