Zane Kilian is one of the accused in the September 2020 assassination of former Anti-Gang Unit (AGU) section head Lieutenant-Colonel Charl Kinnear in Cape Town. One of Kilian’s co-accused is alleged underworld kingpin, Nafiz Modack.
On Monday 24 May, Western Cape High Court judge Ashley Binns-Ward dismissed Kilian’s bail appeal application. The ruling ratified an earlier decision by magistrate Nonkosi Saba on 18 March 2020 denying Kilian bail.
Although Kilian was not the person who shot Kinnear in front of his house in Gearing Street, Bishop Lavis, on 18 September 2020, the state contends that Kilian’s electronic surveillance of the detective’s phone played a vital role in the execution of his murder.
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.
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 Nonkosi Saba on 18 March, refusing him bail.
The debt collector is charged with murder, conspiracy to commit murder and contravening the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act.
Jaco Marais
Cape Town lawyer William Booth s house was scouted several times before three gangsters tried to kill him.
On one occasion, two of the gangsters got high in the bushes before the hit, but one fell into a hole and hurt his leg.
He had to go to Groote Schuur Hospital for treatment, annoying the prison gangster who ordered the hit.
The details of the attempted hit on Cape Town lawyer William Booth were released in an unexpected plea and sentencing agreement in the Cape Town Regional Court on Friday.
However, instead of a sleek coterie of assassins, the mission turned out to be almost impossible as the hitman fell into a hole in bushes near Booth s house after getting high during one of the attempts.
Jenni Evans, News24
A witness in the murder investigation of the Anti-Gang Unit s Charl Kinnear compiled reports for the police to show the senior detective was being tracked.
The Bellville Regional Court heard that Bradley Goldblatt, whose house was raked with bullets in a drive-by shooting, also gave police updates on this before Kinnear was murdered.
Kilian s lawyer maintains that the evidence against the debt collector and former rugby player is circumstantial and that the real killer has not been caught.
A witness in the investigation into the murder of the Anti-Gang Unit s Charl Kinnear warned the police several times that he had found out that his client Zane Kilian was allegedly using ping bundles to track the location of the senior detective before he was killed, the Bellville Regional Court heard on Thursday.