Security Branch killed Neil Aggett, judge finds: The activist and doctor was still alive when he was hanged by his torturers.
did not committ suicide while in Security Branch custody but died at the hands of his captors, nearly 40 years ago.
At the time of his death Aggett, a medical doctor, trade unionist and activist, had been in Security Branch detention for two months. “It is my well considered view that Dr Neil Aggett did not commit suicide. He was killed by members of the security forces at the John Vorster jail. There is evidence implicating Lt Steve Whitehead in the killing, duly assisted by a police officer,” Makume ruled.
There was “no way” Aggett could have managed to climb the grille in his “weakened state”, which had been worsened by electric shock torture at the hands of Whitehead and others.
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