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Kebble 'hijacking went wrong'
29/09/2005 08:33 - (SA)
Johannesburg - Police gave more detail on Thursday on why they thought a mining magnate Brett Kebble was killed in a botched hijacking - not an assassination - this week.
"The vehicle was stationary (while) he talked to his assailants. It's very clear to us. And then from there, he was shot and he drove further," said police spokesperson Superintendent Chris Wilken.
"So that's why we are actually piecing our facts on the fact that it might have been a hijacking that went wrong."
Wilken told SAFM Morning Live an assassination attempt would more likely have taken the form of a drive-by shooting and Kebble would have been shot while driving.
Kebble was on his way to the house of his partner, Sello Rasethaba, when he was gunned down at the steering wheel of his luxury German sedan around 21:00 on Tuesday night.
He was found in Melrose on a bridge over Johannesburg's M1 freeway less than a kilometre from his home in Illovo.
Wilken said police reconstructed the circumstances of the killing on Wednesday, and found cartridges.
"We have got reason to believe that this might have been a hijacking. We are not saying it is, but we say we have reason to believe there is a possibility that it could have been a hijacking that went wrong."
Kebble family spokesperson David Barrit said on Wednesday Kebble had received threats in the past.
Asked this on Thursday, Wilken said: I have got an enormous problem with people making statements like that ... without the police knowing about that."
If these threats were reported, this was not brought to the attention of the Johannesburg police, Wilken said.
"There are statements being made and it creates enormous confusion. If there threats against people's lives, they must be reported so that they can investigated."
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