Lawyers offer to help attacker

THE rugby fan who attacked Irish referee David McHugh in Durban at the weekend has been offered free advice from South African lawyers and help to pay his bail.

Lawyers offer to help attacker
Tue, 13 Aug, 2002 - 01:00
Tony Leen

A South African Sunday newspaper was inundated with calls of support for Pieter van Zyl, the thick-set 43-year-old who dislocated McHugh's shoulder when he tackled him midway through the Tri-Nations test in Durban.

People called the paper offering to pay his 3000 rand ($667) bail.

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