Court rules on heartbreaking baby battle and other brief reports
Publish date: 22 April 2005
Issue Number: 1321
Diary: Legalbrief Today
Category: Corruption
* The parents of a critically ill baby lost their battle to overturn an English court order allowing her to die if her condition seriously worsens and her breathing stops. The judge upheld his ruling in October giving doctors permission not to resuscitate Charlotte Wyatt, now 18 months old, under such circumstances. IoL
* A US Federal District Court Judge, Leonie Brinkema, has declared Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person to be prosecuted for the September 11 attacks on the US, to be mentally competent to plead guilty to terrorism charges. A hearing has been scheduled for today (Friday) to allow him to testify. The New York Times * Beaufort West municipal manager Truman Prince was released on R200 bail yesterday after being arrested at the local police station following outrageous behaviour, police reported. According to a police spokesperson he started screaming and swearing at police and the SABC\'s Special Assignment crew inside the Beaufort West police station, and was arrested. Prince, a former mayor of Beaufort-West, was recently shown in a television documentary on child prostitution. SABC News * Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour has told the National Assembly that almost 900 of the 22 153 prisoners in Eastern Cape prisons are HIV positive. The Herald
