Pretoria - The medical parole board has again recommended that Chris Hani killer Clive Derby-Lewis be released, eNCA reporter Karyn Maughan tweeted his lawyer as saying on Tuesday.
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.
Derby-Lewis lawyer: the medical parole board believes he has a terminal illness...one doctor thinks he will die within a year @eNCAnews
— Karyn Maughan (@karynmaughan) January 27, 2015
Derby-Lewis lawyer: we want Clive to be treated like Jackie Selelbi was. Selebi was given 4 years with his family before he died @eNCAnews
— Karyn Maughan (@karynmaughan) January 27, 2015