Judge questions why detective didn't prevent Modack co-accused from going through with Kinnear attack

CAPE TOWN - An anti-gang unit (AGU) detective faced tough questioning in court on Wednesday related to a co-accused on trial with alleged underworld gang boss, Nafiz Modack.

The police detective was being cross-examined about Modack's alleged plot to kill a police colleague, Charl Kinnear, in 2019.

Modack and 14 co-accused face 122 charges, centred around Kinnear's eventual murder in September 2020.

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AGU detective Captain Franklin Stone said co-accused, Yannick Adonis, informed the AGU about Modack's plan to kill Kinnear in November 2019.

Stone told the court he was present when Adonis told AGU General Andre Lincoln that Modack had asked him to assist in the plot to kill Kinnear.

Judge Robert Henney asked Stone why the AGU did nothing to prevent Adonis from going ahead with the attack and allowed Adonis to have a cellphone while in prison.

"He contacted you regularly. On the 23rd of November, after the incident, 19 calls were made to you from him on the cellphone — because you would know whether it was a cellphone or public phone — then I don't understand why you permitted him to have a cellphone."

Stone told Henney he acted on guidance from General Lincoln.