SAF CHARGES DROPPED

Last updated : 13 October 2002 By Editor

BBC News: The case of an alleged indecent assault by Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson in South Africa has been dropped.

South African police described claims that Ferguson repeatedly touched a woman's leg as "ridiculous".

"We feel our time and everybody else's has been wasted," said Sipho Ngwema, a spokesman for the National Director of Public Prosecutions.

"There are no grounds for prosecution."

Reuters: ‘A prosecution in this matter, which has wasted everyone's time, would be ridiculous and I have accordingly declined to bear a prosecution," Rodney de Cock, deputy director of public prosecutions, said in a statement on Sunday.