The two daughters of Walvis Bay businessman Hans-Jorg Möller on Wednesday asked Windhoek High Court Judge Dinnah Usiku to send their father’s killers to jail for life. The young women, who may not be identified because of their age, told the court that their lives have irrevocably changed since the death of their father. They...
After fining Kelly Nghixulifwa N$150 000 for fraud and corruption, Windhoek High Court acting judge Christi Liebenberg on Tuesday said mitigating factors in the case prevent him from imposing a custodial sentence. Nghixulifwa, who was CEO of the State-owned company Roads Contractor Company (RCC), received a N$150 000 fine or three years imprisonment plus two years...
Windhoek High Court acting judge Petrus Unengu yesterday convicted the remaining six Caprivi secessionists on high treason. The men were accused of trying to secede the then-Caprivi Strip from Namibia in August 1999. The judge, however, found that the charges of sedition and public violence constituted a duplication of the treason charge, and acquitted them...
A member of the Namibian Police described the scene at a house in Okuryangava, Windhoek, where a woman was butchered by her husband, as a “bloody mess”. Testifying in court on Wednesday, Warrant Officer Immanuel Shilamo of the Scene of Crime Division told Windhoek High Court Judge Herman January that upon entering the house shared by...
Namibia Economic Freedom Fighters’ lawyers have blamed their current legal woes on the ruling Swapo Party. This is after Namibia’s immigration authorities blew a hole in the legal proceedings launched by NEFF against their deregistration as a political party by ECN. The NEFF were supposed to be represented by senior counsel Dali Mpofu and Lerato...
Theodore Shipanga (48) refused to tender a plea when he appeared on charges of murder, robbery and defeating the course of justice on Monday. Shipanga told Windhoek High Court Judge Claudia Claasen that he cannot plead to the charges, as he knows nothing about the whole ordeal. He was arrested 12 years after the murder...
A 38-year-old man who pleaded guilty to murdering his former girlfriend by stabbing her 36 times with a sheep shear wants the court to have mercy on him. Shaun Tieties told Windhoek High Court Judge Claudia Claasen that he found God in prison and is no longer the same man he was before. Tieties pleaded guilty...
Lawyers representing three Zimbabwean nationals accused of murdering a nine-year-old girl and burning her body in a municipal skip container are accusing the police of lies and deceit during the initial investigation. Defence lawyers Milton Engelbrecht, Mbanga Siyomunji and Joseph Andreas flat-out told Commissioner Nelius Becker, Inspector Lodewyk van Graan and Inspector Natangwe Erastus that...
Following a short stint in the retail sector, Roberto Martins Avila followed his childhood dreams of becoming a legal eagle. He said he found his passion in law at a very young age,nd even his interests in television were around legal dramas and series. “I was always intrigued about the idea that as a person,...
The trial of three Zimbabwean citizens has descended into a trial-within-a-trial. This is after the accused persons disputed written and oral statements they made to police officers at the time of their arrest. Edward and Caroline Nkata, and Rachel Kureva told Windhoek High Court Judge Phillanda Cristiaan the admissions were made without them being informed...