Courts & Crime

Protracted Swakop murder trial almost complete

2018-09-13 Roland Routh

Driver who killed three says he was not drunk

2018-09-13 Maria Amakali

State calls for jail time in bribery case

2018-09-13 Maria Amakali

Man kills ex-lover with brick, commits suicide

2018-09-13 Staff Reporter

KEETMANSHOOP - A 37-year-old man allegedly killed his 29-year-old ex-girlfriend at farm Rossenhoff in the Gibeon district on Tuesday before committing suicide.

Walvis stalker, rapist and murderer guilty as charged

2018-09-12 Roland Routh

WINDHOEK – Guilty was the verdict on all eight charges that Walvis Bay resident Piet Kondjele Nakanene faced in the Windhoek High Court, as handed down by Judge Dinnah Usiku yesterday.

‘Major’ Kazeurua’s alleged killers fail in discharge bid

2018-09-12 Roland Routh

WINDHOEK - Windhoek High Court Judge Alfred Siboleka on Monday dismissed an application by Stockley Kauejao, 43, and Afas Kamutjemo, 40, for their discharge on the murder charges they face after the State closed its case.

Five-year-old shares his sodomy story

2018-09-12 Nuusita Ashipala

OSHAKATI – “It was painful and I was screaming, but he told me to keep quiet or else he would beat me,” a five-year-old boy from one of Oshakati’s informal settlements described the chilling details of the day he was allegedly sodomised by an older boy from the same location.

Two men convicted for bribing cop

2018-09-11 Maria Amakali

WINDHOEK - The Windhoek Magistrate’s Court on Friday convicted two men after they admitted guilt for offering a bribe to a police investigating officer.

Woman allegedly stabs lover to death

2018-09-11 Maria Amakali

WINDHOEK - A nineteen-year-old woman is in police custody after she allegedly fatally stabbed her 25-year-old boyfriend to death in Okuryangava on Friday.

Murder trial of City Police officers stalls

2018-09-11 Roland Routh

WINDHOEK - The lengthy murder trial of three City Police cops accused of beating a 17-year-old suspect to death stalled yesterday when the State said it will request the Supreme Court to clear up a conundrum it faces.

Academic fraud trial set for October

2018-09-11 Maria Amakali

WINDHOEK - The trial of 15 men and a woman who were arrested in 2014 accused of possessing fake qualifications attained from bogus colleges in Zimbabwe has been stood down for now.

Man confesses to hacking girlfriend to death

2018-09-11 Roland Routh

WINDHOEK - An Otjiwarongo man who admitted in the Windhoek High Court yesterday that he hacked his girlfriend 45 times on her head, neck and face, said he committed the gruesome deed because the deceased refused to break up with him despite her having another boyfriend.

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Protracted Swakop murder trial almost complete

Driver who killed three says he was not drunk

State calls for jail time in bribery case