Shooting incident in Parow linked to Booysen trial
CAPE TOWN - One of the accused in the Jerome Booysen murder trial, has been gunned down.
Andre Naude was a security boss on trial with alleged gang boss Booysen and several others for the murder of steroid king Brian Wainstein.
Naude is the second accused in this case to be assassinated.
In November last year, Mark Lifman died in a hail of bullets on the premises of a shopping mall in George.
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