McBride under investigation for assault: report

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Cape Town - Robert McBride, the head of the police watchdog the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID), is being investigated for allegedly assaulting a young woman, Eyewitness News (EWN) reported on Saturday morning.

EWN reported that an assault case was opened against McBride on Sunday in Gauteng, after he allegedly hit and tried to strangle a young woman in a car.

He told EWN that he would not be commenting on the allegations.

News24 could not independently confirm the details of the case.

When asked for comment on Saturday morning, police spokesperson Brigadier Mathapelo Peters said Saps is investigating a case of common assault from the Sunday in question.

“We will however not confirm the identity of the neither the suspect nor the victim until the case has been brought before Court," she said.

IPID spokesperson Moses Dlamini did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

News24
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/mcbride-under-investigation-for-assault-report-20170826
 
Apparently he is related to the victim, and has laid a kidnapping charge against the victims mother.

Sordid AF.
 
WaxLyrical said:
How this piece of stinking excrement ended up where he did is one life's mysteries.
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He is a struggle terrorist answer murderous bomber of course he would get places in the anc.

Even if true this will go nowhere and some people better be very very careful.
 
This guy is a big piece of schite, but he's a good anc member.
 
IPID believes McBride is target of crime intelligence plot

Johannesburg – Police watchdog IPID believes Crime Intelligence is plotting to implicate its head Robert McBride in wrongdoing.

"We have become aware of communication circulating amongst crime intelligence people, in which they discuss going after McBride," Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) spokesperson Moses Dlamini told News24.

"We also know those who are behind them. We have uncovered fraud, corruption, abuse of secret funds, and the targeting of civil society and individuals with slander. The work continues. We will not be distracted and have improved our security."

On Saturday, Eyewitness News reported that a case of assault had been opened against McBride for allegedly assaulting a young woman. He allegedly hit and tried to strangle the teenager in a car, it was reported.

Police spokesperson Brigadier Mathapelo Peters said SAPS was investigating a case of common assault.

"We will, however, not confirm the identity of neither the suspect nor the victim until the case has been brought before court," she said.

News24 understands that a woman not related to the teenager opened the case.

Since 1998, this woman has allegedly opened at least 11 cases at various police stations for crimes including theft, fraud, assault, giving a false name to police, and accusing a parent of beating up a child. It was not immediately clear who she opened the cases against.

IPID said it believed the assault case is likely part of a bigger plot to discredit McBride because of the work he had been doing fighting corruption.

Project Wonder

This belief comes from an intelligence document which appears to emanate from Crime Intelligence, titled "Project Wonder". News24, however, could not confirm the veracity of the document.

The document, which has been circulating in the last few weeks, apparently contains details of a plot to target McBride and Police Minister Fikile Mbalula, in an attempt to place people that they want in top posts.

One of the objectives of the alleged "Project Wonder" is to "plan a hit on Mr McBride because he is busy with investigations on corrupt police activities".

Police spokesperson Major General Sally de Beer told News24 she has never seen the Project Wonder document and had no knowledge of its existence.

Crime Intelligence has been beset by infighting in recent weeks after it emerged that its former head Pat Mokushane did not have a security clearance certificate.

President Jacob Zuma’s chief bodyguard, Major General King Bhoyi Ngcobo, was announced this week as the new acting head of Crime Intelligence.

'They discuss going after McBride'

IPID has been investigating cases against senior police members, such as former Hawks head Lieutenant General Berning Ntlemeza and former acting police commissioner Lieutenant General Khomotso Phahlane.

At the height of IPID's investigation into the two men, towards the end of 2016 and early 2017, the Hawks had plans to charge McBride for a number of different cases. In one affidavit seen by News24, a businessman states that a lieutenant-colonel had told him the Hawks wanted to open a firearms and murder case against McBride.

They wanted him to be a fourth witness.

The businessman says in the affidavit that the officer had told him that three other witnesses had already been told what to say to implicate McBride.

"He further told me that they want to nail McBride and they want to get rid of him. That is why they want anything to implicate McBride," the businessman said.

News24
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/N...is-target-of-crime-intelligence-plot-20170826
 
Hopefully another Mcbride will take him out... at this stage anyone having a Mcbride surname must be thinking f**kit.
 
Is his daughter, btw... I don't think this is a smear
 
Robert McBride: 'I deny that I assaulted her'

Johannesburg - IPID head Robert McBride has been accused of assaulting his own teenage daughter, a charge he vehemently denied in a lengthy statement issued by his spokesperson on Saturday.

The head of the police watchdog broke his silence after news broke earlier that he was being investigated for the assault of a minor child.

Speaking "with a heavy heart", he said he decided to issue the statement after his daughter's details were being circulated by people who had failed by other means to get rid of him.

The latest attempt was a woman who had asked him unsuccessfully to squash a traffic fine, he claimed.

"I admit that I admonished one of my daughters, whom I love very much," said McBride.

He explained that he had become concerned about his daughter's school marks and "somewhat rebellious" behaviour, and had admonished her, but never assaulted her.

"My daughter was seated directly behind me in the car, it would have been impossible for me to drive and 'assault' and 'throttle' her at the same time," he said.

"I deny that I assaulted her and that she had any injuries when I left her at home. I have already indicated to the police that I will co-operate fully with the investigation."

McBride continued: "I would do anything for my daughter, she means everything to me."

'Abduction'

He said a woman, who he named in his statement, allegedly took his daughter away from him without his permission, nor the permission of any official authorities such as a "guardian, teacher, doctor, district surgeon or youth counsellor".
He said that the woman had a "long history" of opening cases against people in alleged attempts at extorting money from parents and he had recently refused to squash a traffic fine for her."She was upset with me for refusing to assist her to break the law."But the clincher, to McBride, was that she became a person of interest in an investigation the Independent Police Investigative Directorate is conducting.He has in the meantime opened a counter investigation against the woman for the alleged abduction of his daughter, and will not say anything more about the issue.

The Independent Police Investigative Directorate has thrown its weight behind McBride, saying the assault claim was a conspiracy against him.

It claimed the woman had, since 1998, allegedly opened at least 11 cases at various police stations for crimes including theft, fraud, assault, giving a false name to police, and accusing a parent of beating up a child.

A plot called "Project Wonder" had been uncovered, which purportedly planned a hit on McBride because of his work regarding investigations on corrupt police activities.

Police spokesperson Major General Sally de Beer told News24 she has never seen the Project Wonder document and had no knowledge of its existence.

News24
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/robert-mcbride-i-deny-that-i-assaulted-her-20170826
 
Excalibur said:
It doesn't matter, abusers shouldn't be heading IPID.
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And just like that Zuma wins.

Thing I hate most about this is that we have a president *spits* that has me rooting for this POS.
 
schumi said:
Remember its "alleged" until proven in a court
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*If* it gets to court. Old school kompromat relies on disseminating the allegation, not the allegation actually being tested.
 
McBride’s daughter speaks out, says he ‘did punch, strangle me’

The Ipid boss’ daughter says she wants to make her side of the story known because her father has implied she’s a liar.

Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) boss Robert McBride’s daughter has denied all the claims he made in his statement where he identified the close family member whom he was alleged to have assaulted as his daughter.

Speaking to the media with her mother Natasha Emmanuel present for the first time since McBride’s statement dropped on Saturday, the teenager said she had drafted her statement on her own without any assistance from her mother or friends and remained resolute McBride had assaulted her.

“He did hit me. I maintain that. He was punching me while the car was moving and we were stationary while he was strangling me,” the teen said.

“His reason for ‘admonishing’ me was that he needed to wake up early. The discussion we were having wasn’t anything to do with my marks and he uses the word ‘admonishing’, but I am saying he hit me. That’s the truth and I maintain that.”

She said in his response McBride said he had custody of her. However, she denied he had legal custody of her.
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More at: http://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1629407/mcbrides-daughter-speaks-out/
 
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