The suspect, positively identified as the manager of a well-known Richards Bay restaurant, allegedly assaulted two men with a spade following a road rage incident on Monday afternoon.
But instead of arresting the man, who was still swearing and hurling racial abuse at bystanders, threatening CPF members and even a paramedic who wanted to attend to him, a police officer released him and allowed him to leave on foot.
Astonishingly, he then returned for his vehicle, which the constable helped him push-start so he could leave the scene with his friends, two of whom were also implicated in the attack.
The victims of the road rage attack, Frans Swart and Marion Wehncke, both sustained multiple open wounds and are being treated at Ngwelezana Hospital.
