# The DA has noted with deep concern the escape of convicted rapist, Jakob September, from Helderstroom Maximum Correctional Centre in Caledon, in the Western Cape on Saturday. The party says September, originally from Riversdale, was serving a 28-year sentence for violent sexual offences. The DA’s Nicholas Gotsell says they are demanding that both the Western Cape provincial police commissioner Thembisile Patekile, and Correctional Services, Pieter Groenewald urgently appear before Parliament: