Tortoise given new lease on life thanks to cop

Having been chained and held captive for three decades, allegedly by a sangoma, a tortoise finally emerged from her shell of confinement when a Nelson Mandela Bay policeman came to the rescue.

The now 50-year-old large female leopard tortoise has a hole in her head from the chains with which she was once tied up...

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