My brother died from torture, says Neil Aggett’s sister

Jill Burger has fought for nearly four decades to overrule a previous inquest court's finding that her brother, Dr Neil Aggett, committed suicide while in detention. Picture: NALEDI SHANGE/TIMESLIVE

“I opened the door with a degree of anticipation. [The policeman] asked to come inside and said I should call the family … He said, ‘I have some very bad news for you. Your brother Neil Aggett has died’,” Burger told the court. “I immediately said, ‘You killed him! You killed him!’” Burger told the court, recalling the morning her brother died. “[The policeman] said, ‘Madam, it’s not me.’”

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