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Zane Kilian off the court.
- Zane Kilian, charged with the murder of Detective Charl Kinnear, was visibly dejected to hear that he will be spending Christmas behind bars.
- He was hoping to finally request bail, but another possible exposure to Covid-19 within the team led to the matter being postponed until February.
- He said that his son is having a crisis because he has been away for so long and he kept shaking his head in disbelief when the matter was postponed.
Debt collector Zane Kilian will spend Christmas behind bars as his bail request was again postponed due to an investigator in the case not being able to testify due to being isolated due to possibly being in contact with someone positive for Covid- 19.
He was arrested in Gauteng after the Anti-Gang Unit detective, Lt. Col. Charl Kinnear, was killed in front of his home in Bishop Lavis, Cape Town, on September 18.
Kinnear has a long history of working in cases involving possession of firearms and testifying in gang killings.
The father of two was shot and killed outside his home while he waited for his son to make room for him to park.
His widow, Nicolette, told YOU magazine that she planned to retire in late 2020.
Shooting
Although CCTV footage of the fatal shooting shows a thin-built person pointing a gun at Kinnear’s white car, the burly rugby player-turned-debt collector was arrested in Springs and transported to Cape Town for trial.
He said he was with a pharmacist looking for medicine at the time of the shooting. His legal team presented the court with a time-stamped screenshot.
When his defense attorney Johan van Aswegen broke the news to him in Bellville Regional Court Tuesday that there would be another delay, he repeatedly shook his head in disbelief, stepping back and then forward to chat with Van Aswegen on the wooden railing of the pier.
Two heavily armed policemen stood in the corners of the court watching the proceedings.
Prosecutor Blane Lazarus said the investigating officer was now isolated for a possible Covid-19 after transporting someone in his vehicle.
Isolate
There have been several postponements in your application for bail. At first, it was to find a court considered safer than Bishop Lavis’ Kinnear homeland. Then a prosecutor had to isolate as a possible Covid-19 contact and then Kilian had to isolate after being a possible Covid-19 contact while in Goodwood Prison awaiting the bail request date.
The case has been postponed until February 21, 2021. He was seen shaking his head from side to side again, showing the Hebrew letters found between the tattoos on his head along with a tattoo in tribute to his mother, who was murdered.
Van Aswegen read into the file Kilian’s statement in support of his bail request anyway, confirming that Kilian did use a tracking service for the course of his work to search for people who were behind on their vehicle payments. .
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He said former police officer Bradley Goldblatt had loaded him with software for this service and given him a code, which may also have been given to other people.
He said that at the time of Kinnear’s murder he was at a pharmacist collecting medicine.
“I don’t understand how they can charge me with murder,” Kilian said through Van Aswegen.
“I intend to plead not guilty to the charges.”
Son
The 39-year-old said that one son, in particular, who lives with autism and cerebral palsy, had been having nervous breakdowns since his father was in custody.
Kilian himself needs treatment to control bipolar disorder, a condition that causes deep depression or mania if not managed properly.
He said that in the month before his arrest he was earning R20,000 a month and offered R5,000 as bail to secure his return to court.
He apologized for stating that he did not have a passport when he was arrested.
He attributed it to the “chaos” of the time and said he later recalled that he did indeed have a passport that he planned to use for a rugby trip that did not arrive. He would hand over his passport.
Kilian is being charged with a Schedule 6 crime and the State is expected to present the certification to declare this at his next appearance. This means that you have to show extraordinary reasons to justify the posting of the bond.
He also said it had nothing to do with the attempted murder of lawyer William Booth, a case that is being heard in Cape Town Magistrates Court to which it was added after initial analysis of the phones being traced. He appeared on that court Monday looking refreshed after his Covid-19 scare, with Kim Smith, Kauther Brown, Ibrahim Deare and Riyaad Gasant.
Kilian said he did not fear for his safety outside of jail if he was released on bail.
Smith was granted bail in that matter, but the rest of the defendants must wait until January 18 to return to court.
When the date for his next court appearance was set for February 21, he shook his head again and eventually left the court with armed escorts through a side door.
During the February appearance, the State will present its case and arguments before a decision is made.
