Cape Town - A Cape Flats duo have admitted to damning cellphone evidence implicating them in the conspiracy to murder slain Anti-Gang Unit (AGU) detective, Charl Kinnear.
The admissions by former couple Amaal Jantjies and Janick Adonis were made in the Western Cape High Court yesterday, amid the ongoing trial against alleged underworld kingpin, Nafiz Modack
In a series of texts, calls and voice notes, the plot to hire hitmen to shoot at Kinnear’s Bishop Lavis home and throw a hand grenade at the property was revealed.
In recent weeks, Captain Trevor Shaw of the Hawks National Task Team took the witness stand to unravel the web of cellphone records belonging to Jantjies, which outline the various attacks.
In earlier testimony by former AGU boss Andre Lincoln, he revealed the unit came into contact with Adonis who claimed he had information about a threat on Kinnear’s life.
The couple had met with officers at the AGU base and allegedly provided information about the location of firearms. In his evidence to date, Shaw has outlined several shocking calls where Jantjies is heard trying to solicit various hitmen to carry out the shooting at Kinnear’s home.
Bank records show she received R64000 from the Empire Investments account and a BMW from Modack.
In his admissions read out by his legal representative, Adonis admitted he was in contact with Jantjies while in prison and that he was aware of her communications with alleged hitmen.
He also admitted that he knew she was communicating with her ex-husband, who also tried to arrange hitmen to shoot at Kinnear’s home.
In her admissions, Jantjies told the court she received a call from a fellow inmate of Adonis who told her she needed to go to Somerset West to meet a man now identified as a State witness to purchase a hand grenade.
After collecting the grenade, Jantjies said she collected Faeez Smit near the Manenberg police station and dropped him near Kinnear’s home and instructed him that after he threw the grenade, he should escape by running over the railway line to Clarke’s Estate where she lived at the time.
“I admit that after I collected the hand grenade…I contacted accused 10 [Adonis] and informed him that if the thing goes off it will leave shrapnel, which may have fingerprints on it.
“I informed Accused 10 that I was going to use blue gloves to clean the grenade and that the person that throws it must also wear gloves,” she said. It is understood the duo will later present their version.
The trial continues.
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Cape Argus