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October 4, 2023
In August 2017, Brian Wainstein, a globally connected steroid smuggler, was assassinated in Cape Town. Journalist Caryn Dolley’s book ‘Clash of the Cartels’ details suspected links between that case and local figures, among them recently arrested 28s gang boss-accused Ralph Stanfield.
May 12, 2021
The 2017 murder of steroid king Brian Wainstein was reportedly planned by alleged underworld figures Jerome ‘Donkie’ Booysen and Mark Lifman and carried out by thugs affiliated to the 27s gang. In addition, the State also alleges that Lifman paid to have Cape Flats gang boss Ralph Stanfield...
February 9, 2021
Mark Lifman leaves the Cape Town Magistrates’ Court on 22 December 2020. (Photo: Adrian de Kock) On Tuesday Mark Lifman and Jerome “Donkie” Booysen, who were arrested in December and released on bail, appeared again in the Cape Town Magistrates’ Court in connection with the 18 August 2017 murder of international steroid smuggler Brian Wainstein. A third suspect who would have appeared with them – William “Red” Stevens, widely known as one of the Western Cape’s most seasoned 27s ...
December 23, 2020
During the early hours of 18 August 2017 a gunman fired five bullets into Brian Wainstein who was asleep in his bed in his Constantia home along with his girlfriend and child, who were unharmed during his assassination. Wainstein, who was originally from Ireland, had been linked to several figures with suspected ties to Cape Town’s underworld, so his murder stirred up tensions in these circles. He had a history of confirmed and alleged crime – in 2007 The Irish Times reported that he had il...
December 22, 2020
Three underworld kingpins due in court over steroid king murder TimesLIVE"> By TimesLIVE - 22 December 2020 - 09:40 Brian Wainstein on CCTV entering the Nutrition Rage store in Green Point in 2016. File photo Image: CCTV Three prominent Cape Town underworld figures are to appear in court on Tuesday charged in connection with the murder of “steroid king” Brian Wainstein, the National Prosecuting Authority said. “They are going to appear at court 16 of the Cape ...