Crime and Courts

WINDHOEK - The trial of five men accused of the gruesome murder of Okahandja resident Marshall De Klerk nearly 11 years ago will resume in the Windhoek Regional Court in February 2020.

WINDHOEK - The wife of embattled coastal estate agent Erwin Sprangers, 58, was on Monday acquitted on all charges in the Windhoek High Court after she applied for a section 174 discharge at the state’s case and was granted one by Judge Eileen Rakow.

WINDHOEK - Benjamin Strong, 56, on Monday pleaded not guilty to a count of murder, read with the provisions of the Domestic Violence Act, one count of attempted murder, two counts of assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and one count of defeating or obstructing or attempting to defeat or obstruct the course.

WINDHOEK - A resident of the sleepy town of Aroab was convicted of murder with direct intent for stabbing his 19-year-old girlfriend to death.

WINDHOEK - A police officer reportedly shot and killed a man who allegedly attacked him with an unknown object, while resisting arrest in Katutura on Sunday evening.

RUNDU - A 29-year-old man, who was arrested on Thursday evening for assualting an off duty police
officer at Rundu, was granted bail of N$3 000 when he appeared in the local magistrate’s court on
Monday.

RUNDU - A 29-year-old man was arrested for attempted murder after assaulting a police officer in Rundu on Thursday evening with a snooker pool stick.

WINDHOEK- The Namibia Police Force recorded four cases of reckless and negligent driving that claimed at least two lives with several serious to moderate injuries over the past weekend.

WINDHOEK- Eighty suspects among them foreign nationals are in custody after being arrested with drugs worth N$8 million in the month of November alone, revealed the police.

KAHENGE - A case of attempted murder and discharge of firearm in public was opened against a security guard who allegedly shot a 21-year-old man outside a bar at Mahenzere village in Kavango West region on Saturday.