Woman ‘planned grenade attack on Kinnear’

THE State has called Amaal Jantjies a cold-blood killer who should be refused bail because she corrupted an Anti-gang Unit (AGU) member to warn alleged underworld figure Nafiz Modack when his home would be raided.

The State said she had also organised a range of weapons from hand grenades to firearms and hit men to assist in an attack on AGU commander Lieutenant-colonel Charl Kinnear’s home.

Explosive arguments were led at the Parow Regional Court on Friday during Jantjies’s bail application which is set to come to an end after she spent nearly seven days on the stand.

Jantjies and her co-accused, Farez Smith, aka Mamokie, and Janick Adonis have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder and procuring explosives, relating to the hand grenade incident at Kinnear’s home in November 2019.

Both Smith and Adonis are serving a sentence for another crime and have since abandoned their bail application.

Kinnear was assassinated in September outside of his home in Bishop Lavis.

Jantjies previously claimed AGU head Brigadier Andre Lincoln had asked her and Adonis to help with carrying out a hit on someone who had been threatening himself and his colleague Kinnear.

But the State has reputed her claims stating Lincoln and other police officers had handed in affidavits to block her attempt at corrupting their image and employment.

State prosecutor Blaine Lazarus, armed with Whatsapp conversations, stated Jantjies had received a BMW from Modack in November 2019 and had several verbal meetings with him via her cellphone where she was allegedly tasked to corrupt an AGU member.

The purpose, Lazarus said, was to corrupt the officer, so he could warn the underworld figure when his home would be hit during raids.

Voice recordings, in which

Jantjies referred to Modack as “Mr M,” were played inside court and Whatsapp text messages were read out.

To date, Jantjies has continued to refute that she knows the notorious “NM” as in accordance with how it was saved to her cellphone and claimed she only dealt with this “person’s” associate who she had known as “Andre”.

The State has placed on record that they were in possession of two cellphone numbers which belonged to Modack.

Jantjies later said she had not corrupted the cop.

She claimed she had landed up in police cells because of Lincoln whom she claimed had tasked her and her boyfriend, Adonis, to create a fake attack on Lincoln.