Crime and Courts

A 26-year-old Tanzanian national was expected to appear in the Keetmanshoop Magistrate’s Court yesterday after he was reportedly found in possession of cannabis worth over N$800 000.

The commissioner general of the Namibian Correctional Services, Raphael Hamunyela, on Monday dismissed concerns raised by families of the Fishrot accused that their lives are in danger at the Windhoek Correctional Facility.

Defence attorney Milton Engelbrecht has been instructed by Legal Aid to defend Wickus Johann, Maree who is facing 75 counts of raping underage boys.

The trial of seven men accused of trying to secede the then Caprivi Strip from Namibia in August 1999, is in its last stretch in the Windhoek High Court operating from the Windhoek Correctional Facility. 

Ernst Lichtenstrasser, the man who shot two people at the Namibian Institute of Mining and Technology (NIMT)’s entrance in 2019 in cold blood, wants the court to sentence him to house arrest.

The Erongo Police have arrested three of the seven men in connection with an armed robbery where the group ambushed two security guards and robbed them of money they were about to deposit in the bank in Karibib.

An application for leave to appeal against a 34-year sentence by a man who hacked his girlfriend to death with a panga in 2020 was refused by the Oshakati High Court.

B1 City fraud accused Kelly Nghixulifwa yesterday told Windhoek High Court Judge Christi Liebenberg that he did everything he is accused of in the open and not anybody’s back.

Trustco Bank will have to wait for another week to hear if the court will temporarily freeze the Bank of Namibia (BoN)’s decision to shut its operations. 

The Ministry of Health and Social Services has agreed to pay a grieving mother N$500 000 in damages for the death of her daughter.