Was axed Ekurhuleni metro police chief Robert McBride's 2006 car crash an assassination attempt aimed at silencing his questions into a multimillion-rand property deal?
This is the question being asked after Eyewitness News reported yesterday that an "explosive police report" alleged that the crash was an assassination attempt, that McBride's brakes had been tampered with on two previous occasions, and a yellow Mazda had been on the road at the time of the crash and driven in such a manner as to cause McBride to swerve and lose control.
McBride is facing charges of drunken driving, defeating the ends of justice and fraud. He has pleaded not guilty. The State alleges he tried to cover up that he was drunk.
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The ex-police chief, however, maintains he has no memory of the accident. He has pleaded not guilty.
McBride left an office Christmas party on a Friday afternoon in December, 2006, then crashed and rolled his state-owned Chevrolet Lumina while travelling on the R511. At least five witnesses who stopped at the scene to help submitted statements to say that McBride smelt of alcohol when he climbed out of the wreckage.
He was rushed from the scene of the accident, which occurred in the jurisdiction of the Tshwane metro police, by Ekurhuleni metro police who allegedly threatened bystanders with firearms as they loaded McBride into their vehicle.
They left the scene with him before the ambulance arrived.
Yesterday Eyewitness News reported that an "explosive" police report showed that a police officer investigating claims of corruption related to multimillion-rand property deals admitted there were several strange and unexplained issues around McBride's accident, leading him to believe it was an assassination attempt.
McBride's trial is set to go ahead in the Pretoria Regional Court on March 23.
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