An appeal by a resident of Gobabis in the Omaheke region who was convicted of murder and possession of a firearm without a licence and was sentenced to an effective prison term of 23 years in the Gobabis Regional Court was dismissed in the Windhoek High Court last week. Judges Naomi Shivute and Claudia Claasen...
A long-distance bus driver, accused of murdering his former girlfriend after she dumped him via SMS, yesterday informed the Windhoek High Court he had nothing to do with her death. Victor Elia (40) testified in his defence after Windhoek High Court Eileen Rakow refused an application by him for discharge on all counts, as no...
Windhoek High Court Judge Claudia Claasen has refused to grant bail to one of the three men, who are charged with the brutal murder of elderly farmers Gielam Botha (78) and his wife, 80-year-old Susara Aletta at their farm Lindeshof near Köes in the Keetmanshoop District. Julius Frederick Arndt (42) lodged an urgent bail application...
Windhoek High Court Acting Judge Eileen Rakow yesterday sentenced a 49-year-old man convicted of murdering Rehoboth farmer Joseph Adriaan Barth to an effective 20 years imprisonment. Rakow convicted Jan Moses Uamunika on a charge of murder, acquitted him on a charge of robbery with aggravating circumstances, but convicted him on the lesser charge of using...
The trial of prominent Windhoek lawyer Dirk Conradie and his long-time friend Sara Ngenohani Damases hit another snag as Covid-19 restrictions means that his South African senior counsel Vas Soni cannot attend the hearing in the Windhoek High Court. High Court Judge Thomas Masuku postponed yet another high-profile trial to 9 November, to enable the...
Oshakati High Court judge Johanna Salionga has sentenced a pensioner to life imprisonment and another 30 years, following a double murder conviction. Johannes Ambondo David (65) was convicted of stabbing his 38-year-old heavily pregnant girlfriend and mother of his two minor children Ndapanda Nekwaya nine times, causing her to die in the Oshakati state hospital...
Former magistrate turned rape accused Jaco Kennedy has lodged yet another application in the Windhoek High Court – this time, for an itemised description of each document in the original case docket, an itemised description of any document in the original case docket to which he is denied access if any, and a statement under...
Leader of Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) McHenry Venaani yesterday said the party’s top leadership resolved to appeal the judgement of three judges of the electoral court to remove six of its current parliamentarians and replace them with another six that were on the gazetted list before the November 2019 elections. Deputy Judge President Hosea Angula...
One of the Fishrot accused Ricardo Gustavo is set to appeal the refusal to grant him bail by magistrate Johannes Shuuveni in the Windhoek High Court. The matter is set to be heard this coming Friday before Windhoek High Court Acting Judge Kobus Miller. Shuuveni refused to release him on bail, as it would not...
Jan Moses Uamunika (49), convicted for the murder of Rehoboth farmer Joseph Adriaan (Shorty) Barth (69 years old at the time of his untimely death), will be sentenced on Wednesday, Windhoek High Court acting Judge Eileen Rakow said on Friday. Rakow convicted Uamunika on a charge of murder and acquitted him on a charge of...