/ 23 February 1999

PAGAD MAN ON BAIL

A MEMBER of vigilante group People Against Gangsterism and Drugs was granted bail in the Oudtshoorn Magistrate Court on Monday. Yacoob Jacobs and four other Pagad accused face charges with car theft and illegal possession of firearms, ammunition and two detonators in connection with an alleged plot to bomb Parliament. They were arrested en route to Cape Town from Johannesburg. The suspects claimed on Monday that that police had beaten and tortured them during their arrest or at subsequent interrogations. The bail applications for the remaining four will continue on Tuesday.