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Jaco Marais Nafiz Modack will spend at least another week in custody after his bail application was postponed. This after the magistrate who was supposed to hear the application was reportedly involved in "an accident". News24 understands he was hit in a shooting which claimed the life of a lieutenant colonel on Sunday. The bail application of alleged underworld figure Nafiz Modack was postponed on Monday due to the unavailability of the magistrate, who was understood to have been wounded in a ...

Zane Kilian’s lawyer has approached the Western Cape High Court to appeal against a decision by a magistrate not to grant bail to the former professional rugby player implicated in the murder of Anti-Gang Unit (AGU) section commander Lieutenant-Colonel Charl Kinnear. In the application, Kilian’s advocate Marius Botha argued that the case against Kilian was weak and that the possibility that he would be found guilty was “remote”. Kilian is appealing against the ruling made by magistrate ...

Nuuspod, also uploaded as a video to YouTube on Monday. Du Plessis said on the podcast that the interview was made possible by economist Dawie Roodt and financial services provider Efficient Private Clients, which Roodt chairs. Kilian is accused of playing a role in the 18 September 2020 murder of Lieutenant-Colonel Charl Kinnear who was assassinated outside his Bishop Lavis home in Cape Town. He also faces charges in connection with the attempted murder of attorney William Booth, who was shot ...

Jaco Marais So-called private investigator Zane Kilian allegedly had so much personal information on murdered Anti-Gang Unit member Charl Kinnear that he even knew details of the detective s bond. The State alleged during his bail application that not only was Kinnear and lawyer William Booth tracked, but their wives and security company players were also targeted for either pinging or having their personal details trawled. Kilian claims he only worked for a mystery "Mr X" who needed to know ...

Disgruntled criminal lawyers said the speed at which the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) dealt with the bail applications of alleged underworld trio, Jerome “Donkie” Booysen, Mark Lifman, 56, and Willem Stevens, 66, and who were subsequently released on bail of R100,000, has set a dangerous precedent. The men were arrested on 22 December 2020 on charges of murder and conspiracy to murder and released on bail within hours. Booysen and Stevens face an additional charge of money launderin...

Family representative Nicolene Kilian wrote to Justice and Correctional Services Minister Ronald Lamola shortly after an incident on Saturday, 6 December when a prisoner who was visibly sick, she claimed, entered Kilian’s cell at the Goodwood Correctional Facility. Both Kilian and the prisoner were eventually tested for Covid-19 and, pending the outcome of the results, his scheduled bail application in Bellville Regional Court was postponed to Tuesday, 15 December. “We have serious concerns...