Private investigator Paul O’Sullivan. Picture: Gallo Images Forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan has told Parliament’s ad hoc committee that he will not appear before it in person, saying statements by KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi have put his life at risk. He has submitted an application to the committee to appear virtually, according to a report inCity Press.
While appearing before the ad hoc committee, Mkhwananzi alleged that O’Sullivan had ties to the former head of the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) Robert McBride and that some Ipid operations were planned. He also accused O’Sullivan of having too much influence in the criminal justice system. In O’Sullivan’s letter to the ad hoc committee, he quoted Mkhwanazi as saying: “But, it is time that this country must not sit back and be run by Paul O’Sullivan.
And if government fails to act on it, the men and women in this country are going to take it upon themselves to do something drastic about it.” O’Sullivan says this is an incitement to violence and accused parliament of failing to warn the KZN police commissioner that his words were a criminal offence. The forensic investigator told the ad hoc committee that he had received “credible intelligence of a very real threat to murder me, no doubt inspired by Mkhwanazi and his criminal friends in the MK party and the police”. O’Sullivan’s request to appear virtually comes after Marius van der Merwe, a witness in the Madlanga commission of inquiry, waskilled in an alleged hitin December.
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He was shot outside his home in Brakpan. Van der Merwe had testified at the Madlanga commission about police corruption within the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD). He also implicated suspended top cop Julius Mkhwanazi in criminal activity.
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