David Bruce is barking up the wrong tree

David Bruce's letter “Booysen case a tangle of claims" (September 24) refers. The assumption that Bheki Cele and I are close (sic) is conjecture. My relationship with him was purely on a professional basis when he was the national commissioner of the South African Police Service.

I was not the head of the Cato Manor Unit. The commander was Colonel [Rajen] Aiyer. Bruce knows that charges against me were withdrawn. To suggest I stand indicted is mendacious. Unlike the other mentioned protagonists, I have been exonerated by an eminent senior advocate during a protracted hearing. A judge of the Durban high court also ruled that no evidence exists to sustain any of the imputations levelled against me. —