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Author: Roland Routh

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    Cop recalls grisly murder scene

    Cop recalls grisly murder scene

    2018-09-25  Roland Routh
    WINDHOEK - One of the first police officers at the scene of the gruesome murder of 24-year-old Louise Ross Shimunu Alupe on November 10, 2014, at Dunes Independence Beach in Walvis Bay yesterday testified about what he found when he arrived at the scene.
    Defence seeks culpable homicide conviction for murder accused

    Defence seeks culpable homicide conviction for murder accused

    2018-09-27  Roland Routh
    WINDHOEK - Defence lawyer Milton Engelbrecht, representing an elderly man from Karasburg who allegedly had his murder victim washed and clothed and put her in bed after beating her, yesterday asked Judge Nate Ndauendapo to convict his client of culpable homicide instead of murder.
    Former top cop guilty of murder

    Former top cop guilty of murder

    2018-09-28  Roland Routh
    WINDHOEK - A former senior police officer of the Namibian Police Force accused of shooting an 18-year-old to death was convicted yesterday on five of the six charges that he faced in the Windhoek High Court at the Windhoek Prison Facility by Judge Dinnah Usiku.
    Life in prison for panga hacker

    Life in prison for panga hacker

    2018-09-28  Roland Routh
    WINDHOEK - Windhoek High Court Judge Naomi Shivute yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment, an Otjiwarongo man who admitted in the Windhoek High Court that he hacked his girlfriend 45 times in the head, neck and face.
    Bongers grilled in MTC graft trial

    Bongers grilled in MTC graft trial

    2018-10-03  Roland Routh
    WINDHOEK - The trial of prominent Windhoek lawyer Dirk Conradie and his long-time friend Sara Ngenohani Damases resumed in the Windhoek High Court yesterday with Mark Bongers, the man who taped a conversation he had with Conradie, facing cross-examination.
    Double murder suspect cries for bail

    Double murder suspect cries for bail

    2018-10-03  Roland Routh
    WINDHOEK - Lukas Nepela Nikodemus, the man charged with the murder and burning of two young women at a rubbish dump in Pionierspark suburb in Windhoek, wants the Windhoek High Court to release him on bail pending his trial. 
    State wants life sentence for deadly Otjomuise beating

    State wants life sentence for deadly Otjomuise beating

    2018-10-05  Roland Routh
    WINDHOEK - State Advocate Cliff Lutibezi on Wednesday told High Court Judge Alfred Siboleka in the Windhoek High Court that the only reasonable sentence the court can impose on convicted killer Elwen Gawaxab is life imprisonment, sending him to jail for the next 25 years to safeguard innocent lives.
    Nikodemus denies committing double murder

    Nikodemus denies committing double murder

    2018-10-05  Roland Routh
    WINDHOEK - Lukas Nepela Nikodemus, the man charged with the murder and burning of two young women at a rubbish dump in Pionierspark suburb in Windhoek, said he will plead not guilty when his trial starts in two weeks’ time in the Windhoek High Court before High Court Judge Christi Liebenberg.
    Panga killer guilty as charged

    Panga killer guilty as charged

    2018-10-05  Roland Routh
    WINDHOEK - A man from King Kauluma village in the Tsumeb District who was on trial for almost severing the head of his girlfriend and the mother of his two minor children was convicted of murder with direct intent by High Court Judge Herman January in the Oshakati High Court at the close of trial.
    Amupanda approaches High Court over rental control

    Amupanda approaches High Court over rental control

    2018-10-09  Roland Routh
    WINDHOEK - Land activist Job Amupanda has taken his fight for rent control boards to another level by dragging the Minister of Trade and Industrialisation and government to court over failure to implement the  regulations of the Rents Ordinance 13 of 1977, as amended.
    NAC wants court to nullify Ondangwa Airport tender

    NAC wants court to nullify Ondangwa Airport tender

    2018-10-11  Roland Routh
    WINDHOEK – Namibia Airports Company (NAC) through its new Board of Directors is asking the Windhoek High Court to review and set aside a decision and resolution taken by the previous board of the embattled public company to award a tender to China State Construction Engineering Company (CSCES) to be appointed as the contractor for the Ondangwa Airport Runway Rehabilitation Project.
    Second treason trial resumes

    Second treason trial resumes

    2018-10-11  Roland Routh
    WINDHOEK - The trial of eight men still facing charges of high treason, murder, attempted murder, sedition, public violence and illegal importation of weapons and ammunition resumed  in the Windhoek High Court this week after the Chief Justice, Peter Shivute, denied a petition directed at him.
    Koch gets eight years for child trafficking

    Koch gets eight years for child trafficking

    2018-10-12  Roland Routh
    WINDHOEK - High Court Judge President Petrus Damaseb yesterday sentenced convicted child trafficker, Bertus Koch, the DRC settlement of Swakopmund resident to an effective eight years imprisonment on convictions of child trafficking and committing an immoral act with a child under the age of 16. The sentence was meted out in the morning.
    Gobabis man makes confession on frenzied knife murder

    Gobabis man makes confession on frenzied knife murder

    2018-10-16  Roland Routh
    WINDHOEK - A Gobabis man who admitted to stabbing the mother of his five children, at least 16 times with a knife because he suspected her of having an affair with a taxi driver, was convicted of murder with direct intent yesterday morning by Windhoek High Court Judge Dinnah Usiku on his own admission.
    Alleged killer to wait for a year to hear his fate

    Alleged killer to wait for a year to hear his fate

    2018-10-17  Roland Routh
    WINDHOEK - The man accused of the brutal rape and murder of 13-year-old Rachel Vanessa Boois in the Omdel location of Henties Bay during the period May 3 to 4, 2014 will have to wait another year to hear whether his application to be discharged for a lack of evidence is successful or not.
    State rejects guilty plea in Rehoboth murder

    State rejects guilty plea in Rehoboth murder

    2018-10-17  Roland Routh
    WINDHOEK - A 21-year-old resident of Rehoboth on Monday offered a plea of guilty for the brutal murder of sixteen-year-old Camilla Gabriella Steyn, but denied he raped and robbed her.
    Nghixulifa loses bid to have charges quashed

    Nghixulifa loses bid to have charges quashed

    2018-10-18  Roland Routh
    WINDHOEK - Windhoek High Court Judge Christi Liebenberg yesterday rejected an application by former CEO of the Roads Contractor Company (RCC), Kelly Nghixulifa to quash counts 1, 5, 6, 9 and 10 in the indictment he faces in relation to charges of fraud and contravening the ACC Act and the amendment of counts 2, 7 and 11 by deleting a section of the Criminal Procedure Act.
    Otjomuise murderer gets 37 years ... and five years for GBH

    Otjomuise murderer gets 37 years ... and five years for GBH

    2018-10-18  Roland Routh
    WINDHOEK - Windhoek High Court Judge Alfred Siboleka yesterday morning sentenced convicted killer Elwen Gawaxab to 37 and a half years imprisonment for murder plus a further five years for assault with grievous bodily harm without making any order as to whether the sentences are to run concurrently or consecutively. This means that Gawaxab after serving two thirds of the 37 and a half years will i
    PG gets another crack on bail of suspected tourist robbers

    PG gets another crack on bail of suspected tourist robbers

    2018-10-22  Roland Routh
    WINDHOEK – The Prosecutor General’s Office got another chance to have the bail cancelled for three suspected robbers targeting tourists after their appeal against the decision of  Magistrate Johannes Shuuveni.
    Outjo man guilty of murder and assault

    Outjo man guilty of murder and assault

    2018-10-22  Roland Routh
    WINDHOEK - A resident of the small town of Outjo was convicted on Friday on a charge of murder with direct intent on his own admission and a charge of common assault and assault by threat after the state called witnesses.