SOUTH AFRICA: SIR ALEX FERGUSON, MANCHESTER UNITED MANAGER, REJECTS AS RIDICULOUS THE COMPLAINT OF ASSAULT A WOMAN LAID AGAINST HIM IN SOUTH AFRICA

Record ID: 338366

  • Title: SOUTH AFRICA: SIR ALEX FERGUSON, MANCHESTER UNITED MANAGER, REJECTS AS RIDICULOUS THE COMPLAINT OF ASSAULT A WOMAN LAID AGAINST HIM IN SOUTH AFRICA
  • Date: 12th October 2002
  • Summary: VEREENIGING, SOUTH AFRICA (OCTOBER 12, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. EXTERIOR HOTEL 2. VARIOUS OF HOTEL 3. VARIOUS OF MANCHESTER UNITED SOCCER TEAM MANAGER ALEX FERGUSON LEAVING HOTEL, SAYING: "Wait until lunchtime!" 4. WAITING PRESS 5. FERGUSON GETTING INTO CAR 6. WIDESHOT HELICOPTER 7. FERGUSON IN HELICOPTER 8. WIDESHOT FERGUSON IN HELICOPTER 9. HELICOPTER FLYING OFF 10. MORE HELICOPTER FLYING OFF Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 27th October 2002 12:00
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  • Location: VEREENIGING, SOUTH AFRICA
  • Country: South Africa
  • Reuters ID: LVA670GRYZWQ5SDMEGNMD423EV0M
  • Story Text: Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson has rejected
    as "ridiculous" a complaint of indecent assault laid against
    him by a woman in South Africa.



    Manchester United soccer team manager Alex Ferguson on
    Saturday (October 12) rejected as "ridiculous" a complaint of
    indecent assault laid against him by a woman in South Africa.

    "It is ridiculous," Ferguson told reporters at a resort
    near Vereeniging -- some 100 km (60 miles) south of
    Johannesburg -- before flying by helicopter to the capital
    Pretoria, where he was due to attend a soccer academy run by
    former Manchester United goalkeeper Gary Bailey.

    Ferguson's lawyers said told state prosecutors that a
    complaint against Ferguson was groundless and were seeking a
    Saturday decision on the complaint.

    Police are investigating a complaint of indecent assault
    against Ferguson which was laid on Friday (October 11). They
    had initially said that the director of public prosecutions
    would open a file on the subject on Monday (October 13) and
    review the evidence to decide whether it was enough to form a
    case.


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