Former
Boksburg Metro Police Chief Robert Bomber McBride sentenced to jail in 2011 but
STILL not in prison
11:28 Mar 8 2013 Pretoria Magistrate Court, South Africa
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March 8 2013 Reprinted from Tia-MSOA who writes: "The fact that the
criminal and murderer, Robert McBride, is still not behind bars yet is definite
proof that there is something seriously wrong with South Africa’s justice
system. On 8 April 2011, the Pretoria Magistrate's Court convicted McBride for
drunken driving and defeating the ends of justice. His bail was extended,
pending his sentencing on 15 July 2011. However, his sentencing only took place
much later, in September 2011. He was then sentenced to two years imprisonment
for driving under the influence of alcohol and an effective three years
imprisonment for attempting to obstruct the course of justice. The later charge
relates to McBride’s attempt at submitting a fraudulent medical certificate to
the court. ( Reprinted from: " This is Africa, My Simple Online Abode: )
McBride gets five years in jail
"The vain-glorious lout then appealed his sentence and his bail of R1 000 was extended… That was almost 18 MONTHS ago! Now suddenly, when his appeal case is FINALLY reaching conclusion after all these months, he claims that he was victimised by the Organised Crime Unit of the SA Police for apparently making allegations against them. Well, the man has certainly got his timing right as far as juicy media-stories are concerned, and particularly in view of the high number of reputation-destroying incidents the police have been involved in lately!
Robert Mcbride claims victimisation
"In his appeal case in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria heard on Thursday, 7 March 2013, McBride claimed that the three former colleagues who testified that he had been drunk on the eve of 21 December 2006, when he smashed his official car after attending a Christmas party, had all been coerced and intimidated by the police into making incriminating statements or changing statements which infringed his right to a fair trial.
"The three men initially made statements supporting McBride's version that he had not been drunk and did not leave the scene of the accident to evade justice. All three witnesses later changed their minds, and alleged that McBride had been heavily under the influence of alcohol and that he systematically started covering-up the incident with their assistance.
"Two of the witnesses, Johnston and Segathevan, later obtained a court interdict to protect them from McBride and the Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department, as they claimed McBride had made death threats against them. In an official report, related to separate incident, a senior SA Police officer claimed that McBride swore at police officers and threatened to have them shot.
See news report: 'Who the f*** are you?' (below)
Background to "Bomber Mc Bride" history and victims:
Related Posts:
See also Wikipedia for other pertinent details about this criminal.
Robert McBride's bomb: Three women pedestrians were killed when the Magoo Bar bomb exploded, and many bar patrons wounded. McBride and a companion were sentenced to execution. A pardon negotiated by former president Nelson Mandela saved McBride from death row. McBride then became a diplomat and later the metropolitan police chief of the East Rand. He did apply for amnesty from the Truth and Reconcilition Commission, but stands by the bombing, saying that if he was in the same situation, he would do it again.
http://www.irisfilms.org/longnight/ln_magoo.htm
Why did McBride bomb Magoo's?
McBride's performance as police chief:
Innocent bystander Qenesane Benjamin Hans shot dead at Ramaphosa Squatter Camp on McBride's watch as metro-police commander
June 1 2008 -- On McBride's watch as commanding police officer, innocent people were also injured and killed. This photograph by Rapport newspaper photographer Christiaan Kotze was taken while the East Rand/Ekurhuleni metropolitan police had been ordered to shoot at a crowd at the Ramaphosa squatter camp. The man in the red shirt in the foreground died just minutes after this photograph was taken. He was Qenesane Benjamin Hans, a South African resident who lived at the Ramaphosa squatter camp and walked past, enroute to his job.
And the policemen which can be seen firing behind him all belong to the EastRand/Ehkurhuleni police force - they had just been ordered to 'fire on a crowd' at Ramaphosa squatter camp by Robert McBride, who had just arrived and taken over command of the action from the national SA Police Service.
Kotze and Hans both were injured by rubber bullets and shotgun-pellets being fired in volleys fired from metropolitan-police guns just seconds after this photograph was taken and pellets had also shattered the camera-lens. The two injured men were taken to hospital in the same ambulance. Mr. Hans had suffered severe head wounds and succumbed in the ambulance, Mr. Kotze was treated and discharged. Kotze states that he had noticed that Mr Hans clearly had been an innocent bystander who really was just walking through the area and had not been involved in any 'xenophobic attacks'. Kotze had not noticed him amongst the rowdy crowd behind them before he and Kotze were shot. The entire incident is even more controversial because at that time, the officially 'suspended' metropolitan police chief Robert McBride had arrived in the middle of these xenophobic attacks and intervened with the national SA Police's attempts to calm down the crowd -- by taking over command. Shortly thereafter, when a bottle was thrown at McBride from the crowd, orders were given to shoot at them - injuring Hans and Kotze, amongst others. McBride 's actions were so controversial because he had officially been placed on 'extended leave' pending the outcome of his trial for drunk-driving...
http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.nl/2008/09/eastrandekurhuleni-police-chief-gets.html
Top squash-player James-Thomas Geldart, 20, shot and injured by Ekhurhuleni metrocops on Robert McBride's watch:
April 19 2008 A young Afrikaner Unisa student, and one of the country's top ten squash players, James-Thomas Geldart (20) was reportedly recovering from serious gunshot wounds in Glynnwood hospital after he was shot in the groin and the face by members of the notorious EastRand/kurhuleni-metropolitian police on the N12 highway near Springs. He was returning from the Benoni Country Club. He's a trainer there and plays in its top honours-winning squash-team.
Photographed with him by Beeld newspaper left, were his parents James jr and Amanda, and sister Petri, 15. The unarmed Unisa student was returning from the Benoni club when he was shot at around 12:30 and, chasing home with serious gun-shot wounds, crashed his car into a wall.
The family said he was dragged from his car covered in blood, and kept saying: 'dad I thought I was being hijacked, they were shooting me.' The Geldart family already was badly traumatised by violent crime: recently they were also was attacked by armed black men inside their home, and about a year ago, James-Thomas' car also was hijacked. He said the shots were fired by two groups of armed men in two unmarked cars who had followed him on the N12 highway near Springs. They were giving no indications that they may have been cops. Believing they were hijackers or robbers, he called his security company CMS while he continued driving to his parental home. Spokesmen confirmed that they could hear the shots while he was calling them in sheer panic -- and immediately rushed to his house because a security alarm had also been raised there by his mother. Mr Geldart, bleeding profusely and weak from the gunshot wounds, by then had lost control over his car and crashed it into a wall a block away from his house. There was no sign of the men who had been following him. He was treated on the scene by paramedics and rushed to Glynnwood hospital.SA Police captain Julia Claasen claimed that the metro-cops were 'following' the young Afrikaner when he had 'ignored a red traffic-light'. They are now 'investigating attempted murder,' she added. His dad says he cannot understand why his unarmed son was shot at at all. "He's still a child, he was the headboy at Brandwag (Afrikaans) High School and among the top-ten squash players in the country. "He's in his third year studying for a B-com in financial management at Unisa.' The father 'had heard that the metro police were busy with some kind of crime-prevention campaign in Springs. Perhaps that had something to do with it.'
http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.nl/2008/09/eastrandekurhuleni-police-chief-gets.html
The Murderer and Criminal - Robert McBride
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_McBride_(police_officer)
http://www.afriforum.co.za/english/2011-06-14-afriforum-jeug-bring-hulde-aan-slagoffers-25-jaar-n-magoos-bar-bomontploffing/
http://longwalksincefreedom.blogspot.com/2011/04/anc-double-standards-mcbride-and-boer.html
http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.nl/2008/09/eastrandekurhuleni-police-chief-gets.html
McBride gets five years in jail
"The vain-glorious lout then appealed his sentence and his bail of R1 000 was extended… That was almost 18 MONTHS ago! Now suddenly, when his appeal case is FINALLY reaching conclusion after all these months, he claims that he was victimised by the Organised Crime Unit of the SA Police for apparently making allegations against them. Well, the man has certainly got his timing right as far as juicy media-stories are concerned, and particularly in view of the high number of reputation-destroying incidents the police have been involved in lately!
Robert Mcbride claims victimisation
"In his appeal case in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria heard on Thursday, 7 March 2013, McBride claimed that the three former colleagues who testified that he had been drunk on the eve of 21 December 2006, when he smashed his official car after attending a Christmas party, had all been coerced and intimidated by the police into making incriminating statements or changing statements which infringed his right to a fair trial.
"The three men initially made statements supporting McBride's version that he had not been drunk and did not leave the scene of the accident to evade justice. All three witnesses later changed their minds, and alleged that McBride had been heavily under the influence of alcohol and that he systematically started covering-up the incident with their assistance.
"Two of the witnesses, Johnston and Segathevan, later obtained a court interdict to protect them from McBride and the Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department, as they claimed McBride had made death threats against them. In an official report, related to separate incident, a senior SA Police officer claimed that McBride swore at police officers and threatened to have them shot.
See news report: 'Who the f*** are you?' (below)
Background to "Bomber Mc Bride" history and victims:
Related Posts:
See also Wikipedia for other pertinent details about this criminal.
Robert McBride's bomb: Three women pedestrians were killed when the Magoo Bar bomb exploded, and many bar patrons wounded. McBride and a companion were sentenced to execution. A pardon negotiated by former president Nelson Mandela saved McBride from death row. McBride then became a diplomat and later the metropolitan police chief of the East Rand. He did apply for amnesty from the Truth and Reconcilition Commission, but stands by the bombing, saying that if he was in the same situation, he would do it again.
http://www.irisfilms.org/longnight/ln_magoo.htm
Why did McBride bomb Magoo's?
McBride's performance as police chief:
Innocent bystander Qenesane Benjamin Hans shot dead at Ramaphosa Squatter Camp on McBride's watch as metro-police commander
June 1 2008 -- On McBride's watch as commanding police officer, innocent people were also injured and killed. This photograph by Rapport newspaper photographer Christiaan Kotze was taken while the East Rand/Ekurhuleni metropolitan police had been ordered to shoot at a crowd at the Ramaphosa squatter camp. The man in the red shirt in the foreground died just minutes after this photograph was taken. He was Qenesane Benjamin Hans, a South African resident who lived at the Ramaphosa squatter camp and walked past, enroute to his job.
And the policemen which can be seen firing behind him all belong to the EastRand/Ehkurhuleni police force - they had just been ordered to 'fire on a crowd' at Ramaphosa squatter camp by Robert McBride, who had just arrived and taken over command of the action from the national SA Police Service.
Kotze and Hans both were injured by rubber bullets and shotgun-pellets being fired in volleys fired from metropolitan-police guns just seconds after this photograph was taken and pellets had also shattered the camera-lens. The two injured men were taken to hospital in the same ambulance. Mr. Hans had suffered severe head wounds and succumbed in the ambulance, Mr. Kotze was treated and discharged. Kotze states that he had noticed that Mr Hans clearly had been an innocent bystander who really was just walking through the area and had not been involved in any 'xenophobic attacks'. Kotze had not noticed him amongst the rowdy crowd behind them before he and Kotze were shot. The entire incident is even more controversial because at that time, the officially 'suspended' metropolitan police chief Robert McBride had arrived in the middle of these xenophobic attacks and intervened with the national SA Police's attempts to calm down the crowd -- by taking over command. Shortly thereafter, when a bottle was thrown at McBride from the crowd, orders were given to shoot at them - injuring Hans and Kotze, amongst others. McBride 's actions were so controversial because he had officially been placed on 'extended leave' pending the outcome of his trial for drunk-driving...
http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.nl/2008/09/eastrandekurhuleni-police-chief-gets.html
Top squash-player James-Thomas Geldart, 20, shot and injured by Ekhurhuleni metrocops on Robert McBride's watch:
April 19 2008 A young Afrikaner Unisa student, and one of the country's top ten squash players, James-Thomas Geldart (20) was reportedly recovering from serious gunshot wounds in Glynnwood hospital after he was shot in the groin and the face by members of the notorious EastRand/kurhuleni-metropolitian police on the N12 highway near Springs. He was returning from the Benoni Country Club. He's a trainer there and plays in its top honours-winning squash-team.
Photographed with him by Beeld newspaper left, were his parents James jr and Amanda, and sister Petri, 15. The unarmed Unisa student was returning from the Benoni club when he was shot at around 12:30 and, chasing home with serious gun-shot wounds, crashed his car into a wall.
The family said he was dragged from his car covered in blood, and kept saying: 'dad I thought I was being hijacked, they were shooting me.' The Geldart family already was badly traumatised by violent crime: recently they were also was attacked by armed black men inside their home, and about a year ago, James-Thomas' car also was hijacked. He said the shots were fired by two groups of armed men in two unmarked cars who had followed him on the N12 highway near Springs. They were giving no indications that they may have been cops. Believing they were hijackers or robbers, he called his security company CMS while he continued driving to his parental home. Spokesmen confirmed that they could hear the shots while he was calling them in sheer panic -- and immediately rushed to his house because a security alarm had also been raised there by his mother. Mr Geldart, bleeding profusely and weak from the gunshot wounds, by then had lost control over his car and crashed it into a wall a block away from his house. There was no sign of the men who had been following him. He was treated on the scene by paramedics and rushed to Glynnwood hospital.SA Police captain Julia Claasen claimed that the metro-cops were 'following' the young Afrikaner when he had 'ignored a red traffic-light'. They are now 'investigating attempted murder,' she added. His dad says he cannot understand why his unarmed son was shot at at all. "He's still a child, he was the headboy at Brandwag (Afrikaans) High School and among the top-ten squash players in the country. "He's in his third year studying for a B-com in financial management at Unisa.' The father 'had heard that the metro police were busy with some kind of crime-prevention campaign in Springs. Perhaps that had something to do with it.'
http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.nl/2008/09/eastrandekurhuleni-police-chief-gets.html
The Murderer and Criminal - Robert McBride
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_McBride_(police_officer)
http://www.afriforum.co.za/english/2011-06-14-afriforum-jeug-bring-hulde-aan-slagoffers-25-jaar-n-magoos-bar-bomontploffing/
http://longwalksincefreedom.blogspot.com/2011/04/anc-double-standards-mcbride-and-boer.html
http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.nl/2008/09/eastrandekurhuleni-police-chief-gets.html
