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Convicted drug trafficker Glenn Agliotti provided the R2 million to pay for the "muscle" to help mining tycoon Brett Kebble's "assisted suicide", the High Court in Johannesburg heard.
On September 22, 2005 when the shooting was initially supposed to take place, state witness Nigel 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's head of security Clinton Nassif, because he realised another person was now aware of what he and two other state witnesses, boxer Michael Schultz and Faizel Smith were about to do.
The fewer people who knew of plans to shoot Kebble the better, he 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.
He met Agliotti at a strip club in 2002.
"I was never fond of Glenn Agliotti," he said. He used phrases like "show me love, show me love", which irritated him.
Agliotti "used our [Schultz's and McGurk's] names when he "wanted to get things done", like "intimidating people".
He approached Schultz to ask why Agliotti knew about the shooting and was told that "he's got the relationship with Brett Kebble ... and he's getting the finances".
Nassif, Schultz, Smith and McGurk were to split R2 million to help Kebble to kill himself. After the "job" was done, Nassif stalled on payments to Schultz, who in turn couldn't pay McGurk and Smith.
