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On the field, during a career that included 43 Springbok caps and a red card during the 1995 Rugby World Cup’s infamous ‘Battle of Boet Erasmus‘, James Dalton earned the nickname ‘Bullet’.

Since hanging up his boots back in 2002, Dalton has landed himself in hot water on a number of occasions, including a brawl outside of a Sea Point restaurant in 2019, and the alleged assault and racial abuse of a security guard last year.

Perhaps he has been hanging with the wrong crowd, because it emerged yesterday in the Cape Town Magistrates’ Court that he may have been targeted by alleged Cape Town underworld figure Mark Lifman.

Lifman and Jerome “Donkie” Booysen were appearing in court in connection with the 2017 murder of Brian Wainstein, dubbed the ‘Steroid King’, with the third suspect, William “Red” Stevens, murdered last week.

The State’s case against Lifman and Booysen has now expanded, reports The Daily Maverick, which is where Dalton enters the scene:

According to the provisional charge sheet in the case against Lifman and his co-accused, they face charges under the Prevention of Organised Crime Act.

They were all accused of contributing to a pattern of criminal activity and it was alleged they did so to benefit, at the direction of, or in association with, the 27s gang…

On top of this, Lifman was accused of incitement and conspiracy to commit murder, linked to around 19 November 2017, and targeting suspects including Nafiz Modack, Colin Booysen (who is Jerome Booysen’s brother), Carl Lackay, Ashley Fields, Emile Goodley and ex-Springbok rugby player James Dalton.

That’s one list you don’t want to see your name on.

One of the suspects added to the docket was Sgt Wayne Henderson, a policeman who was based with the Anti-Gang Unit (AGU) before being placed with the Sea Point police.

Henderson is accused of taking a R100 000 bribe, and interfering with material evidence against one of the suspects in the Wainstein murder case, Matthew Breet.

That bribe was not successful, with Breet having entered a plea deal with the State recently and receiving a 20-year prison sentence.

[source:dailymaverick]