2021-05-17Roland Routh Windhoek High Court Judge Naomi Shivute said there is a real possibility that a Gobabis man, who was released from custody on parole on a previous murder conviction, will re-offend if released on bail pending his trial on another murder charge. View more
2021-05-17Roland Routh Defence lawyer Mbanga Siyomunji has accused deputy prosecutor general Innocencia Nyoni of ambush after she introduced untested evidence during the bail application of alleged serial rapist Gavin Gawanab. View more
2021-05-18Roland Routh A resident of Otjimbingwe in the Erongo region pleaded not guilty to three counts of rape, alternatively contravening the Combating of Immoral Practices Act, three counts of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm, and three counts of assault by threat. View more
2021-05-19Roland Routh Windhoek High Court Judge Orben Sibeya yesterday declined to grant the prosecutor general office’s application to bar local lawyer Sisa Namandje from defending two men on trial for their alleged involvement in the biggest drug bust in Namibia’s history. View more
2021-05-19Roland Routh A man accused of committing several rape offences is a danger to women and children and should not be released on bail for “the good of the community”, the State has argued. View more
2021-05-20Roland Routh State prosecutor Marthino Olivier yesterday asked Windhoek High Court Judge Christie Liebenberg to convict a man accused of murdering his girlfriend. Olivier, however, conceded he could not prove a charge of defeating or attempting to defeat or obstruct the course of justice against Gustav Pienaar. View more
2021-05-20Roland Routh A man from Hamweyi village in the Rundu district was sentenced to 24 years imprisonment on a conviction of murder by acting Oshakati High Court Judge Danie Small. View more
2021-05-21Roland Routh State advocate Ed Marondedze yesterday informed Windhoek High Court judge Christie Liebenberg that the State would apply for the two Fishrot matters – Namgomar and Fishcor – to be joined and tried as one case. View more
2021-05-21Roland Routh Windhoek High Court Judge Boas Usiku yesterday said that direct imprisonment is the only appropriate sentence in respect of the offences committed by a 26-year-old Windhoek man. View more
2021-05-24Roland Routh Windhoek High Court judge Dinnah Usiku on Friday again had to postpone the trial of three men charged with the brutal murder of elderly farmers Gielam Botha (78) and his wife Susara Botha (80). View more
2021-05-24Roland Routh Windhoek High Court judges Kobus Miller and Dinnah Usiku on Friday granted two senior South African lawyers leave to appeal their immigration conviction in the Supreme Court. View more
2021-05-26Roland Routh The three men charged with the brutal murder of elderly farmers Gielam Botha (78) and his 80-year-old wife Susara Aletta (80) at their farm Lindeshof near Köes in the Keetmanshoop district, on Monday denied they were responsible for the murders. View more
2021-05-28Roland Routh Oshakati High Court Judge Johanna Salionga rejected a plea of self-defence by a man accused of murdering his drinking buddy and convicted him of murder with direct intent. The judge further said that while the deceased was the initial aggressor, at the time of the stabbing, he had removed the knife from the deceased and was thus no longer in imminent danger. View more
2021-05-28Roland Routh Lebanese businessman Fadi Ayoub is back in court, this time to ask the High Court to restore his “peaceful and undisturbed possession” of an access road to his farm between Windhoek and Rehoboth. View more
2021-05-31Roland Routh A man, who was sentenced to 35 years imprisonment in 2019 for stabbing his girlfriend and mother of his now 10-year-old daughter 27 times with several knives in front of her then four-year-old son, wants to appeal his sentence. View more
2021-05-31Roland Routh Russian national Alexander Krylof (57) and his Namibian counterpart Anna Katrina Engelbrecht (29), who admitted he had intercourse with at least five under-aged girls during 2017 but denied he raped any of them, want the court to dismiss the charges against them. View more
2021-06-01Roland Routh A man, accused of murdering renowned stock theft investigator Hiambepo ‘Major’ Kazeurua, was dealt a major blow in the Windhoek High Court when his lawyer James Diedericks withdrew his services during an application in which the accused wants Judge Alfred Siboleka to recuse himself from his court case. View more
2021-06-01Roland Routh A suspect, who managed to abscond in the murder and robbery trial involving an elderly Swakopmund couple in 2017, was found in possession of some of the items stolen from the crime scene. View more
2021-06-02Roland Routh A 23-year-old man from Henties Bay, who admitted that he stabbed his sister, but denied that he killed her, was acquitted on the murder charge but convicted on the lesser charge of assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. View more