South African killer Louis van Schoor dies as victims still demand justice

The 72-year-old South African was convicted for seven apartheid-era murders but was behind many more deaths.

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The 72-year-old had been in hospital with an infection in his leg. His daughter told the BBC he died on Thursday afternoon “due to complications from sepsis”.

Van Schoor’s death came less than a week after a BBC investigation into his past, which exposed horrific new details about a series of killings he carried out in the late 1980s during the final years of white-minority rule.

The sister of one of his victims has told the BBC she hopes the police will re-open the cases for investigation despite his death.

At a time when the racist apartheid system imposed a strict hierarchy that privileged white South Africans, Van Schoor was operating as a private security guard in the coastal city of East London.

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