Police ‘beat up my drunk husband’
By Helga van Staaden
Source: The Herald Online
THREE Bethelsdorp police sergeants have been accused of assaulting a 56-year-old Port Elizabeth man after his wife complained about his drinking.
Francis Bon Bochenrode said she phoned the police to report her husband, Phillip, for his drunk and unruly behaviour.
She said her husband had a drink in his hand when the officers arrived at her home at 9 Groener Street, Salt Lake. When her husband refused to accompany them, the policemen slapped the drink out of his hand and assaulted him.
She and her daughters saw how he was kicked and dragged and thrown into the vehicle.
After Mr Bon Buchenrode’s release by police on Sunday he was admitted to Livingstone Hospital with facial injuries, internal bleeding and broken ribs. A police spokesman said the matter had been referred to the internal investigation unit.
