A private investigator charged in connection with the murder of organised crime detective Charl Kinnear has been denied bail.
Zane Killian (39) was arrested in September, shortly after the anti-gang unit member was assassinated outside his Bishop Lavis home.
Killian is accused of tracking his phone and sharing the location with a hitman.
Magistrate Nonkosi Saba said that Kilian failed to prove exceptional circumstances in his bail application and that it would not be in the interests of justice to release him.
The accused has also been painted as untrustworthy, based on evidence related to his earnings and his fake qualifications as a private investigator.
The State presented evidence of a forged certificate used to back Kilian’s claim that he was registered with the Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority.
The magistrate said that there was prima facie evidence against the accused, despite his insistence that he was innocent.
He claimed that he was drawn into the killing to be a scapegoat, but the State argued that he played a key role in the assassination of Kinnear.
Kilian also allegedly tracked the phones of other senior law enforcement officers in Cape Town, as well as alleged underworld bigwigs.
In a separate matter, he’s been charged with tracking prominent defence attorney William Booth, who survived a hit in April.
-EWN
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