Brad Meurant, what's he saying now?

He's admitted now that despite his denials that he knew anything about the police bashing of the clowns during the 81 Springbok tour he now says, 'of course I knew. I was the Squad Commander for goodness sake.'

He admits lying to police inquisitors, saying that 'it [the] became a matter of fighting fire with fire' in terms of closing ranks when 'Deep in Forest. One looks after one's mates.' Additionally, he has admitted ensuring that identification parade looking for a prime police suspect was 'illegal.' So he condoned the inclusion of a constable who was very similar in appearance to the Red Squad member suspect.

Having already spoken about a corrupt police culture and giving specifics of the framing of Arthur Thomas, he know reveals that he conspired to pervert the course of Justice in covering up for his squad members.

Of course unlike ex undercover Patrick O'Brien, he's not asking to charged or volunteering to plead guilty to perjury of any offence, but he seems totally confident that for his admitted crimes (for which I'm sure there is no statute of limitations on when a prosecution might be brought.) I wonder where that confidence comes from, also why at least to this point the police do nothing.

Am I the only one that things have turned upside down, pack-rapists protected from prosecution, undercover committing perjury and other crimes, ex police seemingly proudly confessing to breaking some of the most sacrosanct laws to preserve justice. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad Meurant and O'Brien have spoken out but I'm not glad at the inaction of the Government or Minister of Police to address these matters. It's perjury and conspiracy to defeat the course of Justice that strikes at the heart of the Justice system, it says that police can do such things; send the innocent to prison, turn a blind eye to offending of their colleagues and so forth, speak out about it and Police hierarchy and the Government are silent.