Donovan Moodley latest bid for parole pleads for ‘ubuntu’
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The killer of Bond University student Leigh Matthews, Donovan Moodley, has once again turned to the Gauteng High Court, Johannesburg in a bid to be released on parole.In papers filed with the court, Moodley said he was a “lay litigant” when it came to the law and called on the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services Ronald Lamola, the Department of Correctional Services and the parole board to show him “ubuntu”.Moodley said in a short affidavit attached to his application that he was a lay person when it came to the law, and he needed assistance regarding his legal bid.“They (the minister and the other respondents) are pleaded (sic) to show ubuntu to me and only oppose (the) facts and not legal technicalities,” Moodley said.Aggrieved by the fact that at the end of March the parole board did not recommend him to be released, Moodley is now asking the court to review and set aside that finding.“I am aggrieved by the decision as I believe the decision does not comply with the peremptory provisions of just administrative action,” he said in his affidavit filed with the court.Moodley is asking that the parole board’s recommendations be substituted “by a recommendation/decision made by this court.”He called on Correctional Services and the parole board to make all documents on which it based its decision not to grant him parole available to him within 15 days.In turning down the latest parole bid, which was held at the Johannesburg prison where he is serving a life imprisonment term, it was found that he was not yet ready for the world outside the prison walls.He was also denied parole in January last year.Moodley pleaded guilty in 2005 to murder, kidnapping and extortion after Matthews was shot dead in 2004.Her father, Rob Matthews and his wife, Sharon, opposed him being released on parole. They believe that Moodley is not frank about what exactly happened to their daughter, and they feel he has not shown remorse for his deeds.