'It's going to get ugly': Modack's lawyer claims Kinnear planned to come clean, expose corrupt cops

Nafiz Modack claimed during his murder trial on Tuesday that Anti-Gang Unit detective Charl Kinnear was murdered because he was about to come clean about his and other senior police officers' involvement in a conspiracy to frame Modack and disrupt his nightclub security business, which had a no-drugs policy.

Modack and his 14 co-accused on trial for the murders of Kinnear; Nicolaas Heerschap, the father of a Hawks police officer; bouncer Pitsou Falanga; and tow truck driver Richard Joseph were back in the Western Cape High Court on Tuesday looking rested and groomed.  

The first witness, self-proclaimed assassin Mr A, was in holding cells outside the court, which was surrounded by Department of Correctional Services guards, and he seemed jaunty as he sat down for his first cross-examination by advocate Bash Sibda, counsel for Nafiz and his brother Yaseen.