PAROLE AND DEPORTATION PLEA
Political reasons keeping Walus in jail, says lawyer
It was a clash of justice versus alleged political sabotage in the parole application of Janusz Walus, one of the country’s most despised apartheid-era killers.In the fight to gain his freedom for the third time, legal heavyweights — who were grilled by Judge Selby Baqwa — slugged it out in court 4B of the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on Tuesday.Central to the arguments were allegations of documents around Walus’s rehabilitation being manipulated or withheld, and Correctional Services Minister Michael Masutha and the parole board chairman ignoring parole panel recommendations for his release.Walus has appealed to the court to be paroled and deported back to his home country of Poland, which Masutha and the Home Affairs Department argued was highly irregular.Walus’s lawyer Roelof Du Plessis slammed Masutha’s actions in denying his client parole as "unfair and unjust", and argued Masutha unfairly prejudiced Walus by ignoring multiple recommendations that he be released on paro...
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