Mass killer Louis van Schoor tells BBC of police collusion

Ex-security guard, Louis van Schoor, killed dozens in South Africa but was only jailed for seven murders.

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Standing in the bedroom of a killer, your eyes naturally hone in on the details.

Van Schoor’s bed is immaculately neat - the duvet so flat it looks like it has been ironed. The air is heavy with the smell of cigarettes, their stubs piled high in an ashtray. Strips of sticky paper are dangling from the ceiling, writhing with trapped and dying flies.

The so-called “Apartheid Killer” has lost his teeth. His health is waning. Following a heart attack, both his legs were recently amputated, leaving him in a wheelchair, with painful scars. When his surgeon carried out this procedure, Van Schoor requested an epidural instead of a general anaesthetic - so he could watch them remove his legs.

“I was curious,” he said, chuckling. “I saw them cutting… they sawed through the bone.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c51yqdy3q61o

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