A former traffic officer who in 1996 escorted a desperate, pregnant couple to hospital and helped deliver their son was last week reunited with the boy - 23 years after the event.
On August 13, 1996, The Star published a front page report about the traffic officer, Moses Molope, who managed to get Hugh Raichlin and his pregnant wife Michelle to Marymount Hospital in Kensington. Michelle was in labour with her third child, Jonathan.
The couple could not get to the hospital quicker because of heavy traffic.
The parents named the little boy Jonathan Moses Raichlin in honour of the heroic cop who helped bring him into the world.
Twenty-three years after his heroic act, Molope surprised Jonathan at his wedding, held two weeks ago.
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