Hawks used cellphone evidence to scan rivalry between Lifman & Modack, court told
Booysen and 11 others are on trial for the murder of 'steroid king' Brian Wainstein, who was shot dead in his Constantia home in 2017.
Friends of of Mark Lifman including alleged gang boss Jerome Booysen attended the court appearance of Lifman’s alleged killers in George on Thursday. Picture: Kayleen Morgan/ Eyewitness News.
CAPE TOWN - A Hawks detective has shown how police used cellphone evidence to gain insight into the alleged underworld rivalry between Mark Lifman and Nafiz Modack.
Booysen and 11 others are on trial for the murder of "steroid king" Brian Wainstein, who was shot dead in his Constantia home in 2017.
Legal teams are arguing for the court to decide whether cellphone records can be used as evidence in the trial.
The detective described what she deemed as "a head-on collision" between two underworld gangs.
The captain, who cannot be named, used a recording of a phone call between the now-deceased Lifman and Andre Naude to highlight an incident at a property auction in Parow in March 2017.
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"Mark and Andre were at the auction when Colin Booysen and Nafiz Modack arrived."
In a separate trial, alleged underworld gang boss Modack, previously testified about the same auction, saying it's where he became enemies with Lifman.
Modack said he decided to take over the security at Cape Town's nightclubs from Lifman after they had an argument about buying properties.