The Minister of Justice and Correctional Services Michael Masutha has welcomed the judgment of the high court in Pretoria which would ensure that the murderer of Chris Hani Janusz Walus remain in prison. Walus brought an application last week to be released on parole pending appeal proceedings against his release by Masutha before the Supreme Court of Appeal.Another freedom bid by Janusz Walus failsOn Tuesday‚ the high court dismissed Walus’s application.The high court had dismissed the minister’s application for leave to appeal against its order of 10 March 2016 whereby the court had ordered that Walus be placed on parole within 14 days.The minister filed for petition to the SCA following refusal to grant him leave to appeal.“When a party has applied for leave to appeal or process an appeal against a court order‚ the order is automatically suspended pending finalisation of such an appeal unless there are (among others) exceptional circumstances that would persuade the court to lift the suspension and direct that the order be executed while the appeal process is underway‚” ministry spokesman Mthunzi Mhaga said.He said in this instance‚ the court was not convinced that there were exceptional circumstances that warranted lifting of the suspension pending the finalisation of the appeal by Masutha.“This means that Mr Walus will remain in custody until the petition or the subsequent appeal is finalised.”Walus‚ 63‚ was sentenced to death in 1993 for the murder of Hani‚ who was the secretary-general of the SACP‚ a member of the ANC’s national executive committee and leader of its armed wing uMkhonto we Sizwe.Walus’s sentence was commuted to life imprisonment after the Constitutional Court declared in 1995 that capital punishment was inconsistent with the Constitution...