Shot Cape Town lawyer 'died because he failed to deliver'

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Cape Town criminal law veteran Vernon Jantjies received an offer he could not refuse. But when he could not deliver on his client’s demand to keep him out of jail at all costs, he paid with his life.

Police spent the past week scouring the Cape Flats for two gunmen who shot Jantjies 13 times outside his linen shop in Lentegeur, Mitchells Plain, on Sunday December 1.

TimesLIVE understands CCTV footage shows the suspects escaping in an old grey Toyota Corolla. Investigators pored over data from licence plate recognition cameras in their hunt for the suspects but so far there have been no arrests.

Jantjies, one of the first pre-1994 black magistrates, recently applied to be a full-time magistrate at Khayelitsha Priority Crimes Court, where he was already serving in an acting position.

Friends said the advocate had virtually stopped working on criminal cases, but he recently joined the defence team representing Glenda Bird, sister of alleged druglord Fadwaan “Vet” Murphy, in a Cape Town high court trial.

Bird, Murphy, his ex-wife Shafieka, Dominic Davidson, Leon Paulsen and Desmond Jacobs face 229 charges including drug dealing, racketeering and money laundering. They are alleged to run one of Cape Town’s biggest drug syndicates.

According to fellow former magistrate and friend Gilbert Jose, Jantjies did not need money and was not taking cases any more.

"There was a time I thought he was back as a magistrate again because he wasn’t representing anyone, so why he was killed in this flippen animalistic way only God knows,” said Jose.

“He ran a linen shop in the Clock Tower ... and he bought himself a beautiful house more than 15 years ago in Pelican Heights. He was settled. He didn’t need a lot of money to make ends meet.

"You have no idea how this thing is killing me and people that are close to me. There are guys that are in senior positions in the judiciary who are asking if I know anything or why. I really don’t know because no-one is telling us anything.”

But TimesLIVE sources said it was when Jantjies failed to deliver on the expectation that a case he was involved in would be scuppered by his expert defence that he became the target of Cape Town’s latest hit on the legal fraternity.

“These gang bosses are tired of paying these lawyers large amounts of money and then their guys still go to jail,” said one source.

More at: https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/so...own-lawyer-died-because-he-failed-to-deliver/

 

[Okty]

This is very odd, apparently he stopped working on criminal cases, wasn't desperate for extra income (according to Jose) but then suddenly becomes a defense lawyer/magistrate for one of the syndicate accused.

Must have been one promised paycheck he couldn't refuse.

 

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This is very odd, apparently he stopped working on criminal cases, wasn't desperate for extra income (according to Jose) but then suddenly becomes a defense lawyer/magistrate for one of the syndicate accused.

Must have been one promised paycheck he couldn't refuse.

a couple of pictures of the family could also motive a person... etc..

 

[We Love Bass]

They are watching too many gangster movies with that free wifi they got from Google.