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Kilian appeared before Bishop Lavis Magistrates Court on Monday under the strong protection of the Anti-Gang Unit and other police officers.
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- Zane Kilian’s attorney is demanding the subpoena used to monitor his client’s phone prior to his arrest for the murder of Charl Kinnear.
- His attorney said that without a subpoena, the whole case will fail.
- KilianThe request for bail was postponed until Friday to find a court deemed safer than Bishop Lavis.
Zane Kilian’s attorney demands the subpoena used to track the former rugby player’s cell phone prior to his arrest for the murder of Anti-Gang Unit detective Lt. Col. Charl Kinnear.
Kilian appeared in Bishop Lavis Magistrates Court on Monday under the strong protection of the Anti-Gang Unit and other police officers, some in plain clothes with ski masks to conceal their identity.
After some delays, and security so tight that the devices of everyone who entered the courtroom were individually checked to see if they were turned off to prevent photographs being taken, Kilian finally stepped out onto the dock.
He remained on his feet for the entire brief procedure, the tattoos on his head still visible as his hair grew out.
The case against former rugby player Zane Kilian for the alleged murder of police detective Charl Kinnear was postponed to find a safer court for his bail request. | @itchybyte https://t.co/XI8tjj7Mgf
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The court heard that Kilian’s bail request would not be heard as expected, as it had been decided that there could be risks involved in carrying it out in Bishop Lavis, where Kinnear died in his car on Friday, September 18 as he arrived home. .
Kilian’s lawyer, Eckhard Rösemann, vehemently opposed the delay, claiming that Kilian’s constitutional rights were being violated by not being able to submit the bail application.
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He said that his client had already been detained for 15 days.
Kilian was arrested by police in Springs, Gauteng, on Monday, September 21, and taken for questioning in Midrand. He was taken to Cape Town, where he appeared before Bishop Lavis Magistrates Court on September 25 to face a charge of murder, conspiracy to commit murder and illegal interception of communications.
It is alleged that he illegally tapped Kinnear’s phones from March to September.
Rösemann said that without the subpoena that police had used to track Kilian’s cell phone records prior to his arrest, all evidence would be “null and void.”
Zane Kilian leaves Bishop Lavis Magistrates Court under heavy police protection (Jenni Evans, News24)
However, you will have to wait to make these submissions in full, as the case has been postponed until October 9 for a court that is deemed safe enough to hear the case to be identified.
The court is located on a busy corner of Bishop Lavis, with heavy vehicular and pedestrian traffic nearby.
READ | What we know about the man accused of murdering Chief Constable Charl Kinnear
One of the latest sentences in a case in which Kinnear had testified related to the murder of a witness in the area. That witness had witnessed another murder.
On Monday in court, once the case was postponed, attention shifted to an armored vehicle stopped near the entrance of the detainees, with armed and masked police officers who kept the public and the media at a distance, and cars of the police in a pattern waiting in front and behind for the vehicle to start moving.
Zane Kilian leaves Bishop Lavis Magistrates Court with heavy police coverage after the court postponed his bail request to find a safer place for his case allegedly implicated in the murder of the Anti-Gang Unit detective, Lieutenant Colonel Charl Kinnear (@itchybyte) pic.twitter.com/hiicTt8m4Z
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The people gathered in front of the entrance shouted: “They protect the shit! [They are protecting this ****!]. “
A woman yelled, “Look at how they’re standing now. Shoot him!”
Kinnear was assassinated days after Police Minister Bheki Cele announced a special steering committee to investigate allegations that protection fees were being imposed on restaurants, cafes and, lately, some apartment blocks.
SEE | ‘He lived for his job’ – wife of murdered detective Charl Kinnear speaks
Questions have been raised as to why Kinnear’s protection at home was removed earlier this year.
Police have not explained what the motive was.
Kinnear’s funeral took place on Saturday.
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