OWN CORRESPONDENT, Maputo | Monday 1.00pm.
FOREIGN affairs official Robert McBride, who has been detained in Mozambique since March on gunrunning and espionage charges, was provisionally released from jail on Monday.
Speaking shortly after her husband’s release, Paula McBride said: “We’re extremely tired, and I can’t wait to take him home.” The couple will return home on Monday evening, and will hold a press conference soon afterwards.
At the conference, Paula McBride said, her husband will “explain the circumstances surrounding his incarceration, and thank his supporters for their efforts to secure his freedom.”
McBride was released by Judge Joao Carlos Trindade, who held that the time limit for preventive custody had expired. The judge also released six Mozambicans held on similar charges.