Staff Reporter 17 Apr She said was waiting on a pavement on Govan Mbeki Avenue close to the Red Lion Hotel for her husband to call some friends inside the hotel. Constables Mthetho Moses Bodlani and Princess Nobubele Mtshutshwana arrested her without a warrant and assaulted her, she said. Vermeulen said they threw her in the back of a police van and kept her in the Mount Road police cells until 4am the next morning.
She was later charged in terms of a street ordinance that the police claim was to prevent her from committing the offence of loitering with the intent to commit prostitution. Vermeulen claims the charges, which were later withdrawn, were false. She said she had to undergo medical and psychological treatment after the incident.
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