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Former Allan Gray auditor Stephen Mildenhall counts himself fortunate that his injuries were not more severe after being shot for merely doing his job, the High Court in Johannesburg heard today.
"The man in a blue beanie asked me to come with ... obviously I didn't want to do that ... I backed away... as I was doing that, both men shot me," he said, testifying as the State's third witness in the trial of Glenn Agliotti, the accused in the murder trial of mining magnate Brett Kebble.
Mildenhall detailed how two, dark-skinned men, one wearing a blue beanie, approached him as he returned from work on August 31, 2005, and shot him three times. The men took his wallet and keys. After the shooting, he fell to the ground and lay still until he heard the men drive away. He then shouted to his wife who was inside his home. She rushed him to the Claremont hospital where he remained in the Intensive Care Unit for three days.
Agliotti is facing an attempted murder charge and a charge of conspiracy to commit murder relating to the Mildenhall's shooting.
Mildenhall was listed by Kebble as a person who needed to be "taken out of commission", as testified by the State's first witness, boxer Mikey Schultz.
Mildenhall was employed by Allan Gray Limited, a registered investment portfolio manager, which held the investment portfolios of Kebble's JCI and RandGold and Exploration (R&E) mining companies.
On Tuesday, Nigel McGurk, hired by Kebble's head of security, Clinton Nassif, told the court how he and an accomplice arranged to pay two "coloured guys" R150,000 to shoot Mildenhall.
