Bbc Africa Eye The Apartheid Killer

During a three-year bloodbath in the 1980s, private security guard Louis van Schoor killed at least 39 people in the South African city of East London. All of his victims were black. The youngest was just 12 years old. It is a killing spree that places van Schoor among the most prolific mass killers in history. He was caught and arrested in 1991, but with many of his killings signed off by local police as ‘justifiable homicides,’ he would receive a shockingly light sentence - serving only 12 years in jail.

During a three-year bloodbath in the 1980s, private security guard Louis van Schoor killed at least 39 people in the South African city of East London. All of his victims were black. The youngest was just 12 years old. It is a killing spree that places van Schoor among the most prolific mass killers in history. He was caught and arrested in 1991, but with many of his killings signed off by local police as ‘justifiable homicides,’ he would receive a shockingly light sentence - serving only 12 years in jail.