Durban 'explosives': Lawyer distances client from ISIS WhatsApp group
The lawyer for a Durban bomb scare suspect has told Verulam Magistrate's Court that his client having been on the same WhatsApp group as another suspect in a separate case linked to ISIS, does not tie them to one another.
Bail proceedings are continuing in court today.
Twelve men accused of being involved in the planting of incendiary devices in Durban earlier this year, as well as a fatal knife attack at a Verulam mosque in May.
Closing arguments in the bail hearing began last week.
In his closing address, Advocate Joe Wolmarans, who is representing Accused Number Two, Ahmed Haffejee, echoed many of the submissions already made by Advocate Jimmy Howse in respect of Accused Number One.
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Wolmarans did however also address his client's alleged links to Ahmad Jackson Mussa.
Mussa is an alleged ISIS affiliate who is facing charges of kidnapping and murdering a UK-born couple earlier this year.
Haffejee and Mussa were in the same WhatsApp group.
But Wolmarans says his client was simply added to that group, that he does not engage on it and that his silence cannot be taken as his support for others on the group or their ideologies.
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