A Cape Flats cop accused of colluding with alleged underworld kingpin, Nafiz Modack, has slammed the justice system for unfairly keeping him in custody for over 200 days.
On Friday, Anti-Gang Unit (AGU) officer, Sergeant Ashley Tabisher, lodged an urgent application for his bail hearing to be heard in the Blue Downs Regional Court, saying he was gatvol of the delays which have seen him appear in court 30 times in seven months.
Tabisher, Modack along with Zane Kilian, Jacques Cronje, Ricardo Morgan, Jannick Adonis and Amaal Jantjies are charged with being members of the “Nafiz Modack Enterprise” which the state claims is behind the plot to kill Lieutenant-Colonel Kinnear and his family.
Tabisher allegedly accepted a R10 000 bribe and a cellphone from Jantjies to leak information about planned raids on Modack’s homes.
Tabisher has vehemently denied the charges, claiming he was acting on the instructions of former AGU boss, Major-General Andre Lincoln.
In his application, read out by his lawyer Bruce Hendricks, Tabisher said the delays were a result of legal tussles between state prosecutors and Modack’s defence, which had niks to do with him.
This follows a successful application by Modack’s team to re-open his bail application so he can respond to the evidence given by the state.
Tabisher said his family is suffering and his health is deteriorating, as he found blood in his urine due to an existing health condition, and missed a scheduled operation on his knee after being injured on the job.
Tabisher was seen crying in the dock as Hendricks read out a letter from the teacher of his four-year-old daughter, saying that the child had mental breakdowns over her father and had even bitten other children.
Magistrate Deon van der Spuy should make a ruling on 2 December.