Special Report Transcript Episode 78, Section 3, Time 14:49

I first got to hear about Jeff Benzien in the eighties when he was torturing people and they were untouchable. I mean, you couldn’t ask them questions related to it, you could do nothing. There were three or four photographers and it happened very quickly. One of the judges asked if anybody had a bag or a cloth or whatever. I jumped across the line because Benzien now got over onto the guy’s back and he was about to pull the bag over his head and it was very quick. I didn’t know whether to shoot a wide shot and at the end of it I thought to myself what I’d want to get here is the expression on his face, watching his eyes twitch, watching his hands move. I felt sorry for him. He’s had a lot of bad press. I mean he’s had a lot of pictures of him with doing the wet-bag treatment on almost every single paper across the country. And for that whole week running his name was all over. I think at the end of the day even if he does get amnesty his image and his name will be tarnished forever. And it is a pity that he has children that have to see this and have to live with that.

Notes: Benny Gool; Photos of Benzien demonstration

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