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‘Scissors killer’ appears in High Court
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‘Scissors killer’ appears in High Court

Robert Marlo McNab (39), who allegedly murdered his estranged wife by stabbing her at least 27 times with a pair of scissors, made his first appearance before Deputy Judge President Shafimana Ueitele in the Windhoek High Court yesterday. McNab faces charges of housebreaking with intent to murder, and murder, read with the provisions of the...

Terrorism trial in High Court
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Terrorism trial in High Court

A Grootfontein resident, who is facing a terrorism charge amongst a host of other charges, made a second appearance in the Windhoek High Court yesterday.  Jona Hangula (34) was arrested on 21 June 2023.  He faces 19 charges, including one charge of arranging for the retention or control of funds belonging to persons involved in...

Lengthy postponement for3.5 billion fraud case
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Lengthy postponement for3.5 billion fraud case

Congested diaries and the unavailability of some of the accused resulted in the trial of several Chinese businesspeople and one Namibian being delayed until next year.  The accused, who allegedly defrauded the finance ministry of N$3.5 billion in revenue, were supposed to plead to the charges, but it was postponed to 19 November for a...

Hengari wants charges dropped
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Hengari wants charges dropped

Lawyers representing former agriculture minister Mac Albert Hengari (59) and his 30-year-old co-accused will apply today for the charges against their clients to be squashed.  Patrick Kauta is representing Hengari, while Kadhila Amoomo is for his co-accused. The co-accused cannot be identified to protect the purported victim, who is his relative.  The lawyers informed Magistrate...

Damases denies Conradie in corruption saga
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Damases denies Conradie in corruption saga

Sara Ngenohani Damases, who is accused together with prominent Windhoek lawyer Dirk Conradie of attempting to bribe advertising company DV8 Saatchi and Saatchi owners started her testimony in her defence yesterday. Conradie and Damaseb are accused of attempting to bribe Kim Fields and Mark Bongers with the lucrative MTC advertising contract, provided they took on...

Pick-axe killer gets 28 years 
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Pick-axe killer gets 28 years 

Windhoek High Court Judge Claudia Claasen last week sentenced a Khorixas resident convicted of killing his common-law wife and mother of his two children with a pickaxe to an effective jail term of 28 years.  Nawaseb was convicted on one count of breaking and entering with intent to murder and murder for breaking into the...

Plea bargaining on Namibia’s table
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Plea bargaining on Namibia’s table

Chief Justice Peter Shivute and his deputy, Petrus Damaseb, introduced the concept of plea bargaining in Namibia on Wednesday during a conference on alternative dispute resolution held in the capital. The Judiciary heavyweights hosted the conference with a delegation from Ghana, led by its Chief Justice Alfonse Ghigamoy Owiny-Dollo and accompanied by several senior judges. ...

PDM fails to evict Russian billionaire
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PDM fails to evict Russian billionaire

Windhoek High Court Judge Orben Sibeya dismissed an application by the Popular Democratic Movement to set aside the government’s decision to lease farms to a Russian billionaire, Rashid Sardarov. The decision to lease four farms to Sardarov for 99 years was taken by then land reform minister Utoni Nujoma. Since then, PDM has been pushing...