Despite government effort to curb sexual violence against woman and children, rape cases continue to dominate police weekly crime report.
Crime and Courts
Valombola to apply for 174 discharge
Commissioner of Refugees Likius Valombola (53), who is accused of shooting Helao Ndjaba (25) in the head in cold blood in King Kauluma Street, Oshitenda, Ombili in Windhoek on 18 May 2018 wants the court to dismiss all charges against him.
Police record nearly 6 000 GBV cases
The Namibian Police Force (NamPol) have recorded 5 961 gender-based violence (GBV) cases from September 2019 to September this year.
Man killed over N$20 in Kavango West
NKURENKURU - The police in Kavango West have arrested a 47-year old man for murder after he allegedly assaulted another man to death over a N$20 at Caima village.
Police identify remains as missing man
WALVIS BAY – Human remains found this week outside Uis are those of one of the three men reported missing in March this year, the Erongo police said yesterday.
Woman raped at gunpoint in Kuisebmond
WALVIS BAY – In the latest incident of sexual and gender-based violence in Namibia, a 29-year-old woman was allegedly raped at gunpoint by a stranger in the Kuisebmond township area.
Rehoboth man denies several assaults claim
A man from Rehoboth yesterday denied any knowledge of the attempted murder and various assaults he is accused of having committed in a three-day span.
Psychiatric team to testify in murder case
Lawyers representing a woman who is on trial in the Windhoek Regional Court for the death of her 70-year-old boyfriend in 2018 want to call to the stand the psychiatric team that evaluated her.
Epukiro cops accused of aiding inmate see lover
The law enforcement in the Omaheke region is once again in the eye of the storm after it emerged that some officers at Epukiro Post 3 were involved in aiding and abetting a trial awaiting inmate, who snuck out of the holding cells at night to go see a lover.
Ombili man kills girlfriend then self
Just days after young people took to the street of the capital Windhoek, to demand an end to violence against women and children; a mother of two was senselessly killed by her boyfriend on Tuesday evening in Katutura.