The conviction on three charges of sexual assault of male prisoners under his care has led to South African-born psychiatrist Dr Aubrey Levin (73) being sentenced to five years in jail in Calgary, Canada.1 The trial was widely reported in Canada. Unknown to the jury and the general public was Levin’s history in South Africa as the chief of psychiatry in the South African Defence Force (SADF) during the Apartheid years, something Levin had gone to considerable lengths to hide by threatening to apply Canada’s defamation laws....
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