O'Sullivan released from custody
Pretoria - Forensic investigator Paul O'Sullivan was released from custody by order of the High Court in Pretoria late on Monday night.
Judge Francis Legodi ordered that the matter be struck off the roll. He reserved judgment on who would pay costs.
O’Sullivan was arrested outside Afriforum’s offices in Pretoria earlier, and taken to the Kameeldrift police station, where he was charged with offences including fraud, intimidation, and extortion.
His lawyers then went to the high court to seek an urgent order for police to release him, and to comply with an earlier order that, should they want to detain him, he be given 48 hours to present himself to a police station.
Legodi rejected prosecutor David Mtsweni’s request to amend the order to state that police could arrest O’Sullivan.