Bob Hewitt has gone to jail
FALLEN tennis ace Bob Hewitt will enjoy some privileges at the St Albans Prison in Port Elizabeth as a result of being categorised as a “medium offender”.
Hewitt reported to authorities just before 7am yesterday to start serving his six-year jail term for the rape and sexual assault of three teenage girls who were his tennis students in the 1980s and 1990s.
Correctional Services spokesman Zama Feni said officials had placed Hewitt in a medium B centre at St Albans, as he was categorised as a medium offender.
A maximum centre does not allow contact visits for the first six months, while at a medium centre Hewitt will enjoy two visits per month which can each last for 45 minutes. “At the moment he is undergoing a security risk and health risk assessment.
This will indicate which type of cell he will be put into.
As you know he has a health condition but all this will be taken into consideration and it will be determined whether or not he goes to a group, single or hospital cell,” said Feni.
It is just over a week since the Constitutional Court denied the 76-year-old leave to appeal against the length of his jail term.
Hewitt had approached the State for permission to hand himself in at the St Albans facility, which is close to his home in Addo. – ANA