OTJIWARONGO – Four men implicated in the massive drug discovery at a commercial farm in the Hochfeld area on Wednesday, appeared in the Okahandja magistrate’s court on Friday. Police in Otjozondjupa police on Wednesday morning stumbled onto a huge plantation of cannabis with an estimated street value of more than N$ 52 million at a...
RUNDU – A 16-year-old boy, Markus Amutenya, was severely wounded during a vicious attack by a hippo while he was paddling a canoe along Okavango River at Kasivi village, in Kavango West region on Monday. This was confirmed by police chief inspector Raimbert Muronga who said Amutenya sustained a broken leg while his cousin, identified...
Windhoek High Court Judge Dinnah Usiku sentenced two men convicted of the brutal murder and rape of an elderly couple from Koës in //Kharas region during 2 and 3 February 2018 two terms of life imprisonment. Usiku convicted Julius Arndt (47) and Andries Afrikaner (43) on two counts of murder each and of housebreaking and...
GOBABIS – A stock theft case involving five suspects arrested at Plessis Plaas in 2023, has been postponed to 2 and 3 July 2025 in the Gobabis Magistrate’s Court. The suspects – 42-year-old Synanus Karukukutu Katjiutua, Paul Tjiposa(38), Mbeurora Tjomuho (31), Travold Tjandero (31) and Mosupi Udigeng (29) – appeared before Magistrate Eden Iyambo last...
Windhoek High Court Acting Judge Herman January on Tuesday sentenced convicted murderer Henock Negodhi (46) to an effective 23 years behind bars. The judge sentenced Negodhi to 28 years but conditionally suspended five years of the sentence for five years. He said the three-and-a-half years Negodhi spent in pre-trial incarceration was of no fault of...
John Kangumbe Mutirua (23) pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder, two counts of attempted murder and one count of robbery with aggravating circumstances. Mutirua also pleaded not guilty to one count of defeating or attempting to defeat or obstruct the course of justice, one count of abduction (alternatively kidnapping), two counts of kidnapping,...
The 18-year-old pupil who stands accused of raping three minor girls made his first appearance in the Keetmanshoop Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. Jerome Burtze made his first appearance before Magistrate Unchen Konjore, who postponed his case to 24 June 2025 for further police investigation. During the court hearing, the accused indicated that he will conduct...
Iuze Mukube Following persistent requests for her trial to begin and be finalised, Vapeni Lucia Boois, a former police officer accused of murdering her one-year-old child, will finally stand trial in August. Windhoek High Court Judge Philanda Christiaan this week scheduled the trial to commence on 11 August 2025. The 36-year-old woman is charged with...
Mulisa Simiyasa GROOTFONTEIN – A 65-year-old British tourist arrested Sunday after allegedly instructing San children at the Grashoek Living Museum in Tsumkwe West to undress and photographed them, has been denied bail by the Grootfontein Magistrate’s Court. Robert Douglas Brooks, who was accompanied by his privately-hired lawyer Thomas Andima, appeared before Magistrate Abraham Abraham on...
Windhoek High Court Judge Dinnah Usiku on Monday granted a resident of the Kanaan location in Gobabis the opportunity to be mentally assessed after he was convicted on multiple charges of rape and housebreaking. His current legal aid lawyer, who only came on board after his conviction, Eliaser Shikwa, told the judge that Richard Kennedy...