At her trial before the Zimbabwe High Court in November 1987 Odile testified that she had been tortured before February 1987 at a place called Daventry House, while she was being held at Mabelreign police station in Harare, and after May 1987 at the CIO detention centre in Goromonzi.
She described repeated sexual assaults, severe beatings, burnings with cigarettes and other humiliating treatment.
According to her testimony, the ANC official beat her on the soles of the feet with a hosepipe and half-drowned her by ducking her head repeatedly in a container of water.
On 3 December 1987, the South Africa Commissioner of Police said that Odile was not a spy and had not received any training or compensation.
The report stated that no confirmation of Odile's release could be obtained from Pretoria that Thursday night.