Janusz Walus loses bid for freedom
26 April 2016
Pretoria - Janusz Walus, the Polish immigrant who murdered SACP leader Chris Hani 23 years ago, has lost his application for his immediate release on parole.
Judge Nicolene Janse van Nieuwenhuizen in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria dismissed Walus' application for his immediate release while appeal proceedings against a March 10 ruling that he must be released on parole within 14 days was pending.
Walus and former Conservative Party MP Clive Derby-Lewis, who supplied the weapon Walus used to shoot Hani to death in the driveway of his Benoni home in 1993, were sentenced to death for the murder in October 1993.
Their death sentences were commuted to life imprisonment in November 2000.