Man shot by Kebble 'heavies' to testify

Agliotti is facing two counts of conspiracy to commit murder, one of attempted murder and a murder charge. Two of these charges relate to Kebble's death. The Times says Mildenhall, who arrives from London this morning, was the equity fund manager in 2005 when Kebble's companies, Johannesburg Consolidated Investments and Randgold & Exploration, were going under. The state alleges Mildenhall discovered the two firms had failed to comply with Johannesburg Stock Exchange listing requirements. He also attended meetings about loans JCI sought to save it from 'possible liquidation'. Mildenhall suggested that Kebble resign from both boards, following which a plan was hatched to 'put Mildenhall out of action'. Nigel McGurk, a state witness and alleged hitman who testified in the South Gauteng High Court yesterday, said: 'Someone was doing an audit on Mr Kebble and we had to put him (Mildenhall) out for three months so they could do damage control ... in the sense that he must go to hospital for two or three months'. McGurk and the third Kebble shooter, Faizel Smith, went to Cape Town to get 'the job done'. He testified that two gunmen had been involved in shooting Mildenhall at his home in Cape Town. Full report in The Times

Agliotti provided the R2m for Kebble's 'assisted suicide', the court heard yesterday. A report on the IoL site says that on 22 September 2005, when arrangements were initially made to carry out the killing, McGurk told the court he received a call from Agliotti asking him to 'call off the boys'. This infuriated McGurk, who was employed by Kebble security head Clinton Nassif, because it meant another person was now aware of what he and two other state witnesses, boxer Michael Schultz and Faizel Smith, were about to do. McGurk said he especially had not wanted Agliotti to know about it. 'Because he talks too much... He was the last person I wanted to know what I'm about to do,' he told the court. Nassif had told them Agliotti knew about the shooting because 'he's got the relationship with Brett Kebble... and he's getting the finances'. Nassif, Schultz, Smith and McGurk were to split the R2m to help Kebble to kill himself. McGurk testified he met Agliotti at a club called The Grand a few months after Kebble was shot and that he still had not been paid. Agliotti then told McGurk that he had already paid Nassif the money owed. Defence attorney advocate Laurence Hodes dismissed McGurk's comments linking Agliotti to the money as 'ridiculous' and described the meeting at The Grand as 'nonsense'. He repeatedly asked McGurk why the meeting at The Grand did not appear in his statement. 'I will argue to the court that it's an after-the-fact fabrication,' Hodes said. Full report on the IoL site See also a report on the News24 site