Abducted Teacher Flies To London
(N.Z J 3. A.-Reuter—Copyright)
LUSAKA, September 6.
Mr Denis Higgs, the white mathematics teacher, who was returned to Northern Rhodesia after being abducted to South Africa yesterday, left Lusaka by air for London.
Mr Higgs, a former university lecturer in South Africa, was found blindfolded in a van in a Johannesburg park on Saturday night. The South African Government handed him over to British authorities.
A British Embassy spokesman in Pretoria said last night the South African Government had begun proceedings for the extradition of Mr Higgs. He said the South African Foreign Minister (Dr. Hilgard Muller) handed a request to the Ambassador, Sir Hugh Stephenson, on Friday. The spokesman said there was at present no extradition agreement between Britain and South Africa. The previous one lapsed when South Africa became a Republic and a fresh one was now being negotiated. Mr Higgs is sought as an accessory oefore the fact in the murder of an elderly woman who died as the result of a bomb explosion at the Johannesburg railway station on July 24.
Mr Higgs told a press conference in Lusaka on Thursday that he had nothing to do with the explosion. “I was in Lusaka then,” he said
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30539, 7 September 1964, Page 13
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