Minister needs to be fair and just on Derby-Lewis parole
29 May 2015
The DA notes North Gauteng High Court’s ruling that Clive Derby-Lewis should be granted medical parole for his advanced cancer. The Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, Mike Masutha, must come to a fair and equitable determination in this regard.
If due process was followed there is no reason to deny his parole application.
It is important to note that the DA has always condemned the senseless murder of Chis Hani and believed that the law should run its course.
In doing so the DA has consistently taken the view that prisoners who qualify for ordinary parole or medical parole, in this case, can and should be released, but only after the correct procedures have been followed. Consideration of parole should be applied consistently and fairly in all cases and should not be determined by political considerations.