The Correctional Supervision and Review Board is remaining mum for now on its decision on a review application challenging the granting of parole to jailed former tennis star, Bob Hewitt.
The Review Board met on Friday at St Albans prison outside Port Elizabeth to hear submissions from Hewitt's victims who complained that they were not consulted when the Parole Board made its decision earlier this year.
Hewitt was due to be released in September, but this was put on hold after the Minister of Justice and Corrections, Ronald Lamola called for the review after learning that his victims were not consulted.
79-year-old, Hewitt, was convicted of rape and sexual assault in 2016, for the rape of three minor children during the 1980s and 1990s, and has served only three of his six-year sentence.
Addressing a media briefing after the hearing, the chairperson of the Correctional Supervision and Review Board, Judge Siraj Desai, said that a collective decision had been reached by members of the professional review body on Friday.
He said while the decision has not been made public, the outcome could be expected either on Friday or Monday.
Meanwhile, lawyer Tanya Koen, who is representing two of the three victims, who were between the ages of 11 and 13 when the incidents took place, said they were hopeful that the Review Board had placed the concerns of the victims above that of Hewitt.
"They feel that the law has let them down. They feel that the victims do not have the same rights as perpetrators. As attorneys we are trying to show our clients that the laws of the country will be upheld," she said.
