2 failed hits, 1 staged murder

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Durban - A Hawks police officer pretended to be an assassin and staged a murder on Monday night to nab a Pinetown millionaire who allegedly wanted his business partner killed for a R34 million insurance payout.

It is believed the wealthy businessman, said to be well known in the finance industry, had hired five hit men over this year in attempts to kill his partner.

Convinced of Grant Williams’s “murder” after hearing reports over a police radio, making several calls to the house and also sending people to the crime scene, the businessman’s employees met the “assassin” to pay him R10 000.

Hawks investigating officer, Detective Sergeant Deena Govender, and his team from the Serious and Violent Crime Unit arrested two men at the meeting point in Maydon Wharf opposite their offices.

The men then led them to Williams’s business partner’s home. The business partner was found with an unlicensed 9mm pistol and was arrested.

Hawks spokesman, Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi, said the police were initially investigating what was believed to have been a botched hijacking earlier this year, but later discovered it was actually a failed hit.

In July, two hired guns, said to be from the “tow truck mafia”, had followed Williams from a seminar in Drummond to his home in Kloof where he was shot several times. A case of attempted murder was opened in Pinetown.

Williams’s vocal chords were damaged in the attempt and he is now also confined to a wheelchair.

t is alleged that two weeks later, his business partner then instructed one of the hired hit men to hire three men to shoot Williams’s father-in-law, who assisted Williams in the business.

He was confronted outside Williams’s home while his grandchildren were in the car with him.
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Yoh - what people will do for money... R10 000 for a life and a R34m payout.. Hope this guy sits in jail for a long time. He has already put the guy in a wheelchair.
 
If you want to take someone out you need to get of your arse and do it yourself.
 
Man’s life of pain after ‘failed hit’

Durban - Grant Jones spent last summer at the beach, boogie-boarding with his three young daughters, but an alleged attempt on the Kloof businessman’s life earlier this year has left him in a wheelchair, struggling to speak, and the dreams of seaside holidays this festive season would remain nothing more than that.

“I just can’t do those things anymore,” he said, heartache etched in his broken voice.

“I don’t even know how I’m going to walk my girls down the aisle one day or how I’m going to protect them like this.”

Jones, 46, was shot five times in July, in what initially looked like a botched hijacking.

But last week, his former business partner, Daine Neveling, as well as Johannes Hendrik Nunez and Christian Jorgen Jorgensen, were arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit murder and attempted murder, in connection with the incident.

Neveling was also charged with the possession of an unlicensed Black HK Compact pistol.

Neveling stands accused of having hired Nunez and Jorgensen to kill Jones, so he could claim a R34 million insurance payout.

Read: 2 failed hits, 1 staged murder

The Hawks alleged that, after the first attempt on Jones’s life failed, another three men were recruited to kill Jones’s father-in-law, who supported Jones, and who apparently narrowly escaped a run-in with the men outside Jones’s home in Kloof.

The Hawks’s Serious and Violent Crime unit in Durban got wind of an alleged plan for a third attempt and arrested Neveling, Nunez and Jorgensen after carrying out a staged murder at Jones’s home last Monday night.
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Grant has nine lives. But absolutely evil what his business partner did to him.
 
Alleged assisination mastermind granted bail

Magistrate Vanitha Armu granted the three men who were allegedy part of plot to kill businessman, Grant Jones, two weeks back bail of R5 000 each.

The charges against the main accused, Jones’ business partner, relating to the attempted hits, including the one that took place in July this year, have been provisionally withdrawn.

He will only face charges of being in possession of an unlicensed firearm, while the other two face charges of conspiracy to commit murder only for the earliest incident.
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Oh boy if we still had decent detectives I bet they wouldn't get bail.
 
Got to love it. The judicial system just makes it so easy.
 
Do you get decent assasins anymore ?
In the mould of yesteryears mercenaries Mad Mike & Bob...
 
Shock over handling of failed hit case

Durban - A Kloof businessman, who was left paralysed after an attempt on his life, has approached the director of public prosecutions to investigate how the case was handled.

Grant Jones and his family approached advocate Moipone Noko to raise their concerns related to the case.

Jones’s wife, Debbie, said the family were shocked and disappointed by what happened in court last Thursday, as they had believed that there was a strong case.

“We were shocked when we were told that some of the charges were going to be withdrawn and we want to know why. Our family has survived several attacks not just on my husband, but on my father too. We are living in fear.”

She said the family had been pleased with the work done by the Hawks investigating team, led by Warrant Officer Deena Govender, but felt they had been let down by the prosecution.

Noko confirmed, via National Prosecuting Authority spokeswoman Natasha Ramkisson Kara, that she met Jones and his family after the court proceedings last Thursday.

Jones said the family had been left devastated after they had heard in court that prosecutors based at the Durban Magistrate’s Court who had been dealing with the case had been instructed by a deputy director of public prosecution to withdraw some of the charges and not oppose bail.
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‘Mastermind’ behind Kloof hit back in jail

Durban - The alleged mastermind behind a plot to murder a Kloof businessman is back behind bars and facing several more charges.

Dain Neveling, 35, was arrested on Friday by the Hawks and appeared in the Durban Regional Court on Monday on reinstated charges of conspiracy to commit murder and attempted murder.

He is also facing additional charges of robbery with aggravating circumstances, theft, assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm and intimidation.

Neveling was initially arrested last month, with Hendrik Nunez and Jorgen Jorgensen, in connection with a plan to kill his business partner Grant Jones in two incidents.

In the first incident, in July, Jones was shot five times, and as result he now uses a wheelchair.

In the second incident, in October, the Hawks were made aware of the plot and staged Jones’s “murder” with a police officer posing as the hit man, and the three men were arrested.

In a bizarre twist, on Monday Neveling stood in the dock of the same court where his former co-accused had confessed to their roles in the crimes and named him as the man behind the plot two weeks ago.

Neveling had seemed to be in the clear before the guilty pleas by Jorgensen and Nunez as conspiracy and attempted murder charges against him had been dropped earlier this month on the instructions of a deputy dire

ctor of public prosecutions.

The Mercury understands that the charges were reinstated after Jones and his family raised their concerns about the case with the director of public prosecutions, advocate Moipone Noko.
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Health issue halts Neveling bail bid

Durban - The alleged mastermind behind a plot to murder a Kloof businessman will be in jail for Christmas.

Dain Neveling, 35, charged with conspiracy to commit murder and attempted murder, was meant to apply for bail on Thursday, but that had to be postponed after he suffered a hypoglycaemic episode.

Neveling is a type 1 diabetic and his attorney has previously told the court that he is prone to episodes if he does not eat at regular intervals.

Advocate Christo van Schalkwyk, representing Neveling, said the doctor brought in to attend to his client had advised that the bail hearing not proceed on Thursday, although his blood sugar had been stabilised.

Neveling also faces charges of robbery with aggravating circumstances, theft, assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm, and intimidation.

He was initially arrested by the Hawks in October, with Hendrik Nunez and Jorgen Jorgensen, in connection with a plan to kill his business partner, Grant Jones, in two incidents. In the first, in July, Jones was shot five times, and as a result now uses a wheelchair.

In the second incident, police found out about the plot, faked Jones’s death and arrested the three.
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Hitman hiring businessman to apply for bail next month

Kaveel Singh, News24

Durban – A businessman who was allegedly fooled into thinking he was ordering a hit on his business partner for a R34 million insurance pay-out would apply for bail next month.

Dain Neveling, 34, appeared in the Durban Magistrate's Court on Thursday on charges of conspiracy to commit murder and possession of an unlicensed firearm.

He would remain in custody until his bail application on February 4.

Hawks spokesperson Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi previously said Neveling allegedly hired someone to help him find a hitman to kill his business partner.

In a sting operation, an undercover police officer approached the middleman Neveling allegedly hired and presented himself as a hitman.

Investigators staged the hit on the intended victim, and within 30 minutes, R10 000 was paid for the crime.

The suspect was arrested and allegedly led the Hawks to the home of his boss, Neveling.

The businessman was allegedly found in possession of an unlicensed 9mm black HK pistol with 26 rounds of ammunition.

Mulaudzi previously said it was not the first time Neveling had allegedly tried to have his business partner killed.

In July 2015, the business partner was apparently followed from a conference in Drummond to his home, where he was shot several times in what appeared to have been a failed hijacking.

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Neveling stabbed in jail with toothbrush

Durban - Financial adviser Dain Neveling, charged with plotting to kill his business partner, was to be admitted to hospital on Thursday afternoon after being attacked and stabbed by inmates at Westville Prison.

Neveling, who has been in custody since November 27, has been charged with conspiracy to commit murder and other charges in connection with two attacks on Grant Jones last year.

Jones was shot several times in the first incident and in the second incident the police staged his murder to catch the culprits who had been plotting his death.

Neveling appeared in the Durban Regional Court on Thursday for his bail application, which is being opposed by the State.
The court heard that he had been attacked by three men and stabbed with a “sharpened toothbrush which had a blade” and he was examined by independent pathologist Steven Naidoo.The court also heard that while Neveling was not a beneficiary of Jones’s R34 million life insurance policy, he stood to gain a “potential benefit” from the policy. Part of the Discovery Life policy, worth several million rands, had been ceded to Neveling to cover any current or future debt that Jones owed him in the event of his death.
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Neveling: I have an alibi for shooting

Durban - Durban businessman Dain Neveling says he has an alibi for the night his business partner was shot and severely injured.

The basis of Neveling’s defence was revealed for the first time in his bail application in the Durban Regional Court on Friday.

Neveling, who has been in custody since November 27, has been charged with conspiracy to commit murder and other charges in connection with two attacks on Grant Jones last year. Jones was shot several times in the first incident, but in the second the police staged his murder to arrest the culprits.

Two men, Jorgen Jorgensen and Hendrik Nunez, who were Neveling’s co-accused, have pleaded guilty to their roles and alleged that Neveling was the mastermind of the crime.

They said they had been in a vehicle with Neveling when he shot at Jones after a seminar in Drummond.

They were given suspended sentences and ordered to pay compensation to Jones.

The State alleges that the motive for the attempts on Jones’s life was that Neveling could gain access to a debt book and benefit from a life insurance policy.

The attorney for Neveling, Jacques Botha, submitted a supplementary affidavit to court in which Neveling said he had evidence to corroborate his alibi for the July shooting, including two witnesses, a Mariannhill toll plaza receipt, satellite-tracking information from his car and WhatsApp messages between him and Jones.
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