A convicted criminal serving time in the Waainek Correctional Facility in Makhanda has been awarded damages of R100,000 against the department of correctional services, after he was assaulted by a prison official.
It took less than an hour from the time a stranger asked for food for him to be identified as one of the seven men who escaped from Waainek Correctional Facility in Makhanda and rearrested. Trymore Chauke was arrested at Seven Fountains around 7pm on Sunday 23 October.