MR H TIMOL
As indicated by the Commissioner I was detained at that particular time as well so therefore I was not allowed to attend the funeral, Ahmed's funeral, but I attended the inquest which took place from April to June 1972.  The pathologist, the independent pathologist who was an observer at the post mortem was a prominent South African by the name of Jonathan Gluckman who performed many a post mortem of detainees who had died in detention.  Gluckman's contention and argument during the inquest was that there were bruises and torture marks on Ahmed's body and he could have only sustained that during the period of detention.  But the district surgeon representing the State argued that those bruises could not have happened prior to his detention.  He actually argued that it took place before detention and not during detention.  The inquest findings was that there were bruises on his body but it actually took place - he must have been involved in a brawl before he got detained.  That was the inquest magistrate's finding.