Crime and Courts

A former teacher who is accused of fatally stabbing his wife 12 times in front of their children, wants the Directorate of Legal Aid to pay for a private mental assessment.

In a rather strange break-in, an unspecified number of thieves burgled the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals’ establishment last week and treated themselves to rabbit food such as carrots.

A 54-year-old man was nabbed for hunting a buffalo bull in the Zambezi region’s part of the Bwabwata National Park last week.

Chief Justice Peter Shivute, in concurrence with judges of appeal Sylvester Mainga and Dave Smuts, yesterday increased a convicted child molester’s sentence from an initial eight years to an effective 18 years.

The Namibian Police have arrested one man in connection with a N$1.3 million Nedbank robbery that happened two weeks ago. 

Lay litigant August Maletzky and his former employee Simon Afrikaner, pleaded not guilty to charges of fraud, corruption, forgery and conspiracy to commit fraud and corruption and money laundering in the Windhoek High Court yesterday before Judge Herman January.

The prosecution has asked Windhoek High Court Judge Dinnah Usiku to convict murder accused Petrus Jacobus du Plessis on all charges he is facing.

The City of Windhoek has started investigating circumstances which led to three suspects gaining entrance to the municipality’s fire department before disappearing with a Toyota Landcruiser pickup during the wee hours of Saturday.

Prosecutor general Martha Imalwa has lodged an appeal in the Supreme Court against the release of Fishrot accused Ricardo Gustavo by Windhoek High Court Judge Herman Oosthuizen on an N$800 000 bond.

Two brothers, who were arrested on Tuesday at Nepara village on charges of trafficking in persons and contravention of the Labour Act, were denied bail due to the seriousness of the case against them.