Ex-policeman, nicknamed ‘Prime Evil’, paroled after 20 years for murders of black activists after showing remorse, says officialsThe apartheid death squad leader Eugene de Kock, also known as “Prime Evil” for his role in the torture and murder of black South African activists in the 1980s and early 1990s, has been granted parole after 20 years in prison.South Africa’s justice minister, Michael Masutha, told a news conference on Friday that De Kock would be released “in the interests of nation building” and because he had expressed remorse at his crimes and helped authorities recover the remains of some of his victims.