MURDER-accused Zane Killian has once again failed in his attempt to be released on bail.
The Western Cape High Court has turned down his appeal challenging the Bellville Regional Court’s decision to refuse him bail.
According to court documents, he had claimed the only objective facts linking him to the murder of Anti-Gang Unit detective Charl Kinnear were that he had pinged the officer’s cellphone to determine his location.
Furthermore, Killian averred that he suffered from bipolar disorder and had forgotten he possessed a passport until “his memory was jogged by the content of an affidavit by captain Joubert”.
He had forgotten about the passport as it was acquired for travelling on a rugby tour “but had actually never used it”.
Killian had also in his affidavit said that he has two children.
One of them has “high functioning autism” and has taken Killian’s incarceration badly.
The child was said to have suffered a number of severe meltdowns as a result of his absence.
Killian claimed that 90% of the pinging which he had done on Kinnear’s phone was through alleged under-world boss and his co-accused Nafiz Modack’s instruction. He said he would be paid via ewallet transactions.
But in his judgement, Judge Ashley Binns-Ward said: “The applicant (Killian) denies that he played any role in organised crime but his denial rings hollow having regard to his documented activities.
“His endeavour to revert to the version that he thought he was tracking all the individuals that he pinged for the purposes of debt collection and the recovery of motor vehicles was risible -not only because of the identity of the persons he pinged and the exceptional intensity with which he pinged two of them on the days that they were shot at, but also because he has not identified his principal other than to say it was Modack,” Judge Binns-Ward said.
Cape Times