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The Witness reported that Madhan Maharaj, 49, was arrested and taken to the Mountain Rise police station in 2005 after allegedly killing his wife Caroline by assaulting her with a steel pipe and slitting her throat.  

He asked to rather be sent to New Prison, claiming he suffered from haemorrhoids and that he believed the prison would offer better medical care. Instead, he was sent to Fort Napier Hospital for psychiatric observation.

He escaped a week later.

Detective-Captain Pipes Haffajee told the newspaper the police had not given up hope of finding Maharaj during his seven years on the run.

Local police and the KwaZulu-Natal crime intelligence unit tracked him to a primary school in Phoenix, Durban, where he was living and working as a caretaker.  

Haffajee said Maharaj seemed surprised when the police found him, and that his appearance had changed with the passage of time.

“He’s much older now. He has lost a few teeth and he’s gone bald,” he said.  

Maharaj would appear in the Pietermaritzburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday on charges relating to the murder and his escape. 

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Aug 14, 2012

vivla

Oh hell no!
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Aug 14, 2012

MommaC

How?
Do they not have a screening process for employment or did he purchase a new ID from Horror Affairs?

Makes you wonder how many other people at our children's schools are a danger to them.
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Aug 14, 2012

Phuphethakatha

Shocking, plus there are no comments from the school. How was he hired if he's only found 7 yrs later?
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Aug 14, 2012

eisleben

Nong about that. I have been working with people who look like they have escaped from mental institutions. I guess I am just as mental as they are because I cannot bring myself to report them to their institutions of origin. The other day I came across a uni-cellular troglodyte who told me that when you get attacked when you are white and leaving on a farm it is called farm attack. Farm attack se voet. Some people masquerading as professional only have 13 brain cells to help them to breath and walk. They cannot drive and concentrate on their beer at the same time. Idiots. "killing his wife Caroline by assaulting her with a steel pipe and slitting her throat," now that is one undiluted version of animalism.
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Aug 14, 2012

1andonlybucs

lol hebana he's got them balls this man!!
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Aug 14, 2012

knobkirrie

7 years on the run, I wet myself laughing. Obviously he makes the police look like Coco (the Clown), all the police now need is big red boots, a bubble red nose some strange coloured wig to complete their irrelevence.
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