Murder accused Zane Kilian’s bail application has been dismissed at the Cape High Court while alleged underworld figure, Nafiz Modack’s bail request has been set done for Friday for his legal team to be provided with sufficient information.
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.
The anti-gang unit in Gqeberha arrested five people, recovered three illegal firearms and confiscated several rounds of ammunition, as well as drugs, in various operations across the city at the weekend.