News24 | Nafiz Modack trial: Hitman Mr A tells court he burnt his hands torching getaway Merc

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Police cordon off the crime scene where Nico Heerschap was shot and killed by an alleged hitman in Melkbosstrand on 9 July 2019. (Gallo Images/Network24/Jaco Marais)

Police cordon off the crime scene where Nico Heerschap was shot and killed by an alleged hitman in Melkbosstrand on 9 July 2019. (Gallo Images/Network24/Jaco Marais)

A man who admitted killing the father of Hawks officer Nico Heerschap, allegedly on the instruction of Nafiz Modack, testified on Tuesday that he started feeling the heat after the hit - literally.  

Mr A, as he is identified in the trial, set his hands on fire by accident while he was torching the luxurious black Mercedes-Benz used for the hit in Melkbosstrand on 9 July 2019, the Western Cape High Court heard.

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