Czech crime boss wins his legal battle over laptop charging rights in prison

CZECH fugitive and jailed organised crime boss Radovan Krejčíř faced a dilemma as the court earlier granted him permission to use his laptop in his cell for study purposes, but he cannot charge the device overnight, as he has no plug point in his cell.

- ZELDA VENTER

Krejčíř told the Gauteng High Court, Johannesburg, that Correctional Services are refusing to allow him to charge his laptop via an extension cord to an electrical device outside his cell. The department offered to charge his laptop overnight and give it back to him the next morning, but Krejčíř is refusing this offer.

He explained that he had signed an indemnity agreement with the department that he will not hold it responsible if anything happened to his laptop

He was earlier given the green light to have a laptop in his single cell at the Kgosi Mampuru C-Max Correctional Centre. This allowed Krejčíř to pursue his computer-related studies at private education provider, Oxbridge Academy.