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Two more people have been arrested after alleged underworld figure Nafiz Modack was apprehended in Cape Town on Thursday.
They handed themselves over to the authorities on Friday.
Modack was one of four people arrested in Century View. The three others have since been released.
Two more people have been arrested in connection with the attempted murder of a lawyer, as well as gang-related extortion, kidnapping and intimidation in Milnerton, joining alleged underworld kingpin Nafiz Modack, who was arrested for the charges on Thursday.
Modack was arrested in Century View when a team, which included the Hawks, the police s special task force and the Anti-Gang Unit, executed six warrants of arrest for six people they were looking for.
Booth hitman got high, fell in a hole, went to wrong address, court hears as gangsters are sentenced 26 April 2021 - 17:14 Criminal lawyer William Booth outside the Wynberg magistrate s court. Five shots fired at him by a hitman all missed. Image: Sipokazi Fokazi
The gang boss and hitmen who tried to kill Cape Town criminal lawyer William Booth pleaded guilty on Friday, saying the order for the hit came from an imprisoned gang boss.
But the Cape Town regional court heard how the planned hit was foiled by the incompetence of the men who were commissioned to carry it out.
Kauthar Brown, whose house in Woodstock, a suburb adjacent to the Cape Town central business district, served as the headquarters for the Terrible West Siders gang facilitated the hit which was ordered by the Terrible West Siders’ imprisoned leader.
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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.
CT court hears instructions to kill lawyer came from inside prison Three people who confessed to being behind the failed hit on defense lawyer William Booth in April 2020 were sentenced yesterday. FILE: William Booth. Picture: williambooth.co.za
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CAPE TOWN – The Cape Town Regional Court heard on Friday how instructions to kill defence lawyer William Booth came from inside prison.
Kauthar Brown, Ebrahim Deare, and Riyaad Gesant were convicted and sentenced in connection with the failed hit on Booth at his Cape Town home in April 2020.
Brown was sentenced to five years for willfully aiding and abetting activities of a gang, five years for conspiracy to commit murder – and both sentences were wholly suspended.
Kauthar Brown, Ebrahim Deare and Riyaad Gesant of the Terrible West Siders gang were charged with wilfully aiding and abetting the activities of a gang, conspiracy to commit murder and attempted murder.