The leader of apartheid South Africa’s germ warfare programme, dubbed Dr Death, today said he had no regrets and criticised police, called his prosecutors ‘‘irrational’’ and said his trial had been a huge waste of money.

Apartheid-era germ warfare expert Wouter Basson - dubbed Dr Death - was today cleared of all 46 charges of murder, conspiracy, fraud and drug dealing by a South African court.

A South African chemical warfare expert claims the US used hallucinogenic weapons against Iraq in the Gulf War.

The head of apartheid South Africa’s chemical and biological warfare program said today he had been given unlimited power to further his programme.