SIX men charged with setting their police dogs on illegal immigrants in a ”training exercise” go on trial in the Pretoria High Court on Monday. The charges against the men include three of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm, one of corruption and one of attempting to defeat the ends of justice. Jacobus Petrus Smith (30) Lodewyk Christiaan Koch (32) Robert Benjamin Henzen (32) Nicolaas Kenneth Loubser (27) Dino Guiotto (27) and Eugene Werner Truter (28) were suspended from the Northeast Rand dog unit without pay after their arrests in November last year. Some of them subsequently resigned from the police. They were arrested shortly before SABC TV screened a video showing dogs being incited by policemen to attack three Mozambicans — Gabriel Pedro Timane, Alexandre Pedro Timane and Sylvester Cose — on the morning of January 3, 1998. – Sapa