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A gang member has been sentenced to an effective five years behind bars after being found guilty of charges related to a failed hand grenade attack on the home of slain police Lt-Col Charl Kinnear in Cape Town.
A week before an attempt to throw a hand grenade at his house in November 2019, anti-gang unit detective Lt-Col Charl Kinnear’s life was already in mortal danger.
The charges involve an alleged hand grenade murder attempt and conspiring to kill a lawyer. Security is expected to be tight, as an Anti-Gang Unit member has also been drawn into the case. The Blue Downs Regional Court will hear a bail application on Friday involving controversial businessman Nafiz Modack and several other co-accused. Modack, an alleged underworld kingpin, faces a raft of charges, including alleged gang activity, being part of a hand grenade plot against slain Anti-Gang Unit (AGU) detective Charl Kinnear, and a shooting at the home of Cape Town lawyer, William Booth. For secu...
Bertram Malgas/News24 More affidavits were handed in at the lengthy bail application of the woman accused of being part of a hand grenade plot against Anti-Gang Unit detective Charl Kinnear. One of Amaal Jantjies' co-accused, Jannick Adonis, was also brought from prison to sign a supplementary affidavit for her bail application. Nafiz Modack has been joined to the case, but was not present for the application, which saw an AGU officer being arrested for alleged corruption. More affidavits were handed in for the lengthy bail application of one of the people accused of a thwarted hand gr...
Jaco Marais The promise of R10 000 and a cellphone was allegedly offered to an Anti-Gang Unit member to tell attempted murder accused Nafiz Modack about any planned raids on his house. AGU policeman Ashley Tabisher is the latest to appear in court with Modack who was arrested on attempted murder, kidnapping and intimidation charges after a police chase last week. The draft indictment against the two also covered the complicated bonds between informants and the AGU which is still reeling after the murder of colleague Lieutenant-Colonel Charl Kinnear. An Anti-Gang Unit (AGU) policeman...