The 39-year-old debt collector, Zane Kilian, is also before the Blue Downs Regional Court along with alleged underworld boss Nafiz Modack and three others.
Murder accused in the Charl Kinnear assassination, Zane Kilian, will remain behind bars until 24 May when Western Cape High Court Judge Ashley Binns-Ward will deliver a ruling on whether the former professional rugby player will be allowed out on bail.
On Monday, Modack and Kilian’s bail hearing was postponed to 24 May.
They face charges including the murder of Kinnear, a murder attempt on prominent lawyer William Booth in April 2020, conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder, money laundering, corruption, and contravention of the Prevention of Organised Crime Act and the Electronic Communications Act.
The prospects of Kilian and Modack being released on bail appear slim.
They are charged with a Schedule Six offence, which requires proof that exceptional circumstances exist for their release on bail, and that it would be in the interests of justice.
Also weighing heavily against them is that they are accused of murdering a police officer, a crime for which the prescribed minimum sentence is life imprisonment.
Initially, former rugby player Zane Kilian was the sole accused arrested shortly after the murder of Kinnear on 18 September 2020. On Friday, 14 May, Modack, appearing in the Blue Downs regional court, was added to the charge sheet.
Modack will now appear alongside Kilian, Jacques Cronje, Ricardo Anthony Morgan, Janick Adonis, Amaal Jantjies and Ashley Tabisher in a consolidated indictment handed to the court.
The indictment consists of 62 charges and is a combined summary of incidents relating to the failed hand grenade attack on Kinnear’s home on 23 November 2019, his assassination, the failed hit on the life of criminal lawyer William Booth on 9 April 2020 as well as the pinging of both the cell phones of Booth and Kinnear and 21 other individuals.
Widow of slain AGU cop Kinnear: Truth about plot to murder him will be revealed Nicolette Kinnear attended court proceedings of alleged underworld boss Nafiz Modack at the Bishop Lavis Magistrates Court on Monday. FILE: Nicolette Kinnear with sons Casleigh (left) and Carlisle (right) outside Bellville Regional Court on 18 March 2021. Picture: Kevin Brandt/Eyewitness News
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CAPE TOWN - The widow of slain Anti-Gang Unit (AGU) detective Charl Kinnear said that the truth about the plot to kill her husband would soon be revealed.
Nicolette Kinnear attended court proceedings of alleged underworld boss Nafiz Modack at the Bishop Lavis Magistrates Court on Monday.