Hugh Hind

Hugh "Chuck" Hind (died 28 January 1977) was a former SAS soldier who allegedly assassinated the Chairman of ZANU, Herbert Chitepo.[1]

Hind served with the British SAS during the 1960s. He was awarded the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct for rescuing a young child from the River Wye in Hereford. Chuck Hind jumped into the water when it was flooded with heavy rains; after rescuing the child, he revived the child with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.[2]

Hind emigrated to Rhodesia and, working with another Rhodesian Central Intelligence Organisation operative, known only as "Taffy" Brice, they performed a series of raids into Zambia against ZANU and ZAPU targets during the Rhodesian Bush War.[3]

Taffy and Hind were assisted in Zambia by a white Zambian farmer, Ian Robert Bruce Sutherland, who was later convicted by Zambian courts of illegally possessing offensive material at his farm in Mazabuka, Zambia.

Herbert Chitepo was assassinated, allegedly by Chuck Hind and Taffy on 17 March 1975. They are said to have placed a car bomb in his Volkswagen Beetle. The explosion sent part of the car onto the roof of his house and uprooted a tree next door.[4]

Hind died in a motor vehicle collision. While transporting weapons near Lusaka, the vehicle skidded and left the road; Sutherland was also in the car at the time, but survived.

Sutherland's farm was raided on 22 November 1978 by Zambian police and, in the trial that followed his arrest, he was sentenced to 4 years' imprisonment.[5]