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Zane Kilian was arrested in September, five days after the murder of AGU Detective Charl Kinnear.
- Zane Kilian could spend Christmas behind bars if he doesn’t get bail for the murder of the Anti-Gang Unit detective, Lieutenant Colonel Charl Kinnear.
- This was after he and Kim Smith, Kauther Brown, Ibrahim Deare and Riyaad Gasant’s case regarding the attempted murder of attorney William Booth was postponed until January.
- After a period of isolation from Covid-19, he returned to court on Monday.
The blue light show and heavily armed Anti-Gang Unit (AGU) members arriving in court for one of Zane Kilian’s court appearances was reduced to a single ordinance in a low-key appearance in the City Magistrates Court of the Cape Monday.
Kilian, Kim Smith, Kauther Brown, Ibrahim Deare and Riyaad Gasant face charges related to the attempted murder of lawyer William Booth, who was shot while in his garage in Cape Town on April 8 during the harshest lockdown.
Smith, Brown, Deare, Gasant and one other person whose charges against them were dropped had already been arrested. Smith was released on bail.
Kilian was arrested for the Sept. 18 murder of AGU Detective Lieutenant Colonel Charl Kinnear in Bishop Lavis.
Kinnear was shot and killed while waiting outside his home for his son to move a car to make room for him to park. He had worked on a number of gang-related shooting cases and was also part of a team investigating a security firm’s firearm recordkeeping and permitting and a network of interconnected firearm-related cases.
After Kinnear’s murder, the police rushed to arrest Kilian, although he was of a different structure than a person depicted in CCTV footage from that fatal day.
‘Tracking thousands of mobile phones’
The former rugby player was brought from the East Rand in Johannesburg to Cape Town, and while preparing for his bail request, information emerged that Kilian had allegedly been tracking the cell phones of thousands of people in the course of his work as a private. not registered. investigator.
Analysis of this list found that Booth’s device was among the thousands tracked down, including Kinnear’s, which is why Kilian was added to Booth’s attempted murder case.
He also faces charges of being involved in gang activity for alleged association with the other four defendants who, according to the State, were linked to a gang in Woodstock.
In the early days of the investigation, Kilian’s safety was so concerning that his first appearance in Bishop Lavis’ Magistrates Court was marked by a massive team of armed specialized police officers, dressed in bulletproof vests and helmets, with rifles at the ready. . All those who went to the courtroom were searched and forced to turn off their mobile phones.
Bail delayed twice
Kilian was then pushed into an armored vehicle and driven away from Bishop Lavis with sirens wailing and a long line of escort vehicles, with police peering out of the side of some of the vehicles. The matter was moved to the Bellville Regional Court, which was deemed a safer location.
His bail offer was delayed twice by Covid-19: once when the prosecutor had to isolate and then when Kilian had to isolate.
On Monday, Kilian and the other four defendants were in the dock for the brief hearing to postpone the matter until January 21.
Smith sat on the public benches waiting to join the others. As they emerged from the holding cells, their eyes scanned the benches for a familiar face in a crowded public gallery due to Covid-19 restrictions on court access. The informants AGU agents who had accompanied him previously were not present.
He looked refreshed, dressed in a blue and white striped button down shirt, a pair of jeans, and a leather belt. Your case was handled by the regular prosecutor handling cases in that court for the purpose of adjournment.
There was a slight commotion at the door by a person who had not removed his cap before entering, but otherwise the court proceeded as usual without the group being followed back to the cells with the AGU.
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