KwaZulu-Natal – An elderly Hillcrest couple spent six hours in the cells at Pinetown police station on Friday, the result of a labour dispute which they believed had been resolved.
Now, Fred Mason, who suffers from a terminal lung disease and needed an oxygen machine brought to him, will be instituting a civil lawsuit against the police top brass who ordered that he and his wife, Lindsay, 64, be arrested.
“My age is irrelevant,” said Mason, 74. “It was the incompetence and high -handed dictatorial attitude.”
The couple’s lawyer, Jacques Botha, told The Independent on Saturday their day’s horror ended when a prosecutor, for a second time, refused to place charges against them on the roll…
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