Derby-Lewis’s wife: I don’t know how to feel

Pretoria - Clive Derby-Lewis’s wife doesn’t know how to feel about the medical parole board’s recommendation that he be released, she said on Tuesday.

"I do not know how to feel. It has happed four times before and each time it was blocked by the government. I do not know if the minister is going to release him," Gaye Derby-Lewis said.

In December last year, an urgent application for Derby-Lewis’s immediate release from prison was postponed indefinitely in the North Gauteng High Court, Sapa reported.

Derby-Lewis was admitted to hospital suffering from a range of medical problems. He has been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, which, according to his attorney Marius Coertze, is inoperable because he is too weak to survive surgery.

Coertze said Derby-Lewis had been given only months to live, but correctional services had been dragging its heels on his release since May.