Telephonic conversations between alleged kingpins are set to be played at the murder trial of slain kingpin Brian Wainstein next week.
This was revealed at the Western Cape High Court as the summaries of the contentious 38 calls were ventilated in the trial against alleged Sexy Boys gang boss Jerome ‘Donkie’ Booysen and others returned to court.
The murder case was plunged into a trial-within-a-trial last year, as the State sought to introduce evidence obtained from intercepted calls in a different matter relating to an investigation into a drug syndicate it alleges was run by Booysen and several others.
It is understood that, as investigators obtained permission to intercept the calls of the drug syndicate, they uncovered information linked to the Wainstein murder.
Returning to the witness stand a retired Hawk detective read the summaries made on the contentious calls which date back to 2016.
The summaries include brief descriptions between Booysen, Mark Lifman, Kamaak Naidoo and Booysen’s younger brother, Colin.
An analysis of the summaries show conversations linked to various incident listed in 10 State indictments.
These include the split between the Booysen brothers, Colin’s relationship with rival Nafiz Modack, the attempted assassination of alleged 28s gang boss, Ralph Stanfield and claims that Wainstein had been taxing businesses.
The summaries also include conversations between Donkie and Lifman following the murder of Marwaan “Dinky” Desai from Mitchells Plain who was killed alongside his henchman, Shameem Mohammed in June 2017.
Defence Advocate Amanda Nel objected to the summaries saying the state witness was not a voice expert and has admitted that he was not the author of all the summaries and could therefore not testify about the findings.
The state prosecutor indicated that they would now play the recordings in court but that this is limited to the ones the state witness could explain.
Booysen and several others face a vrag charges linked to the death of Wainstein and violent clashes in the nightclub security industry dating back nearly 10 years ago.
The trial has now been postponed to Monday.
