Durban - A Durban doctor has been served with an interdict stopping him from threatening and assaulting the man he has accused of breaking up his marriage and who he has already allegedly assaulted twice, the second time in the emergency room of the hospital where he works.
But the doctor, Yusuf Asmal, who has yet to file his opposing papers, told The Mercury that Jamaine Roach befriended him under the pretence of wanting to learn more about Islam.
He sent a photograph to The Mercury purporting to prove a romantic relationship between his now ex-wife and Roach, saying: “What would you do if you saw your wife in a car with another man at 4.30 in the morning?”
“I suspected an affair from mid-March. I asked them both at the same time to avoid contact with each other because our marriage was at stake,” he said.
The urgent Durban High Court application was launched by Windermere Road cafe employee Roach, his sister Candice and his mother, Jayaleela, against Addington Hospital doctor Asmal.
An order was taken by consent “but without any admission of the allegations”, and Asmal has until the end of this month to file opposing papers.
Roach, in his affidavit which came before Judge Shyam Gyanda, said he met Asmal and his now ex-wife, Nusrat Aboo, last year and they became friends, socialising at the cafe and at the couple’s home.
“Because he (Asmal) worked shifts, he was at times not able to join us, but Nusrat would accompany our group of friends. Sometimes he would ask me to take her to social engagements if he was not available.
“And then a month ago he became suspicious of us. He tried to stop her from communicating with me, but she refused to comply,” Roach said.
He said one evening in late March Asmal came to the cafe when Aboo was there. An argument ensued and Asmal accused them of having an affair.
The following day, in the early hours, Aboo contacted him and asked him to fetch her from her parents’ home.
He was dropping off staff, so he took a company car, fetched her and then drove around, dropping off the staff.
When they went back to work to return the car and fetch his own, he saw Asmal in his car near the entrance to the venue.
He said as Aboo did not want an altercation he drove off in the company car.
“He followed me and as I turned into Venice Road he rammed me at high speed.
“I drove on and he continuously rammed into me until I hit a lamp-post.”
At that point, Roach alleged, Asmal got out of his car, punched and shattered the windscreen and the driver’s window with a pair of knuckle dusters “and proceeded to punch me on the head and face with the knuckle dusters and his clenched fists”.
Asmal then drove off and Roach was taken by ambulance to Addington Hospital. There, while he was being treated, Asmal “stormed into the trauma unit and again physically attacked me”.
“He was restrained by hospital personnel and removed. As he left he said: This is not over and I will only rest when you are dead.”
He said since his discharge from hospital he had not been back home and his mother and sister, with whom he lived, were terrified to go out.
“I was hoping Aslam and Nusrat would reconcile and this would put an end to his vendetta, but I have subsequently heard they have become divorced through Islamic rites.”
Both Roach and Aboo have made statements to the police.
The provincial Department of Health had not responded to questions at the time of publishing, but Roach’s attorney, Tapiwa Nyika, said his client had received a message from the hospital’s ombudsman saying the management was investigating.
The Mercury
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