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Monday, October 28, 2002 - Web posted at 8:29:13 GMT From Court, In Short WERNER MENGESHeavy sentences for rapists - THE Otjiwarongo Regional Court last week spelled out the heavy price for child rape to an Outjo area farm worker, sentencing him to an effective 20 years' imprisonment. |
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Erastus Kasiparekwa (25) received two 15-year jail terms, with 10 years of one sentence ordered to run concurrently with the other, after Magistrate Christie Liebenberg convicted him on two counts of rape. The farm labourer was accused of raping two 10-year-old girls on June 6 last year. The court was told that Kasiparekwa called the children into the veld, where he then doled out N$1 to them and had sex with them. Both of the girls identified him as the culprit afterwards. Kasiparekwa has been in custody since his arrest shortly after the incident. Mental tests for stabbing suspect WINDHOEK resident Sean Burger, who is accused of fatally stabbing a woman friend in the capital last month, was on Friday ordered to undergo a month's psychiatric observation. Burger (35) made another appearance before Magistrate George Mbundu in the Windhoek Magistrate's Court on Friday, for what had been planned to be his plea on a charge that he murdered Teresia Viljoen (29) on September 15. His lawyer, Sarel Maritz, however told the court that his client had not been able to undergo psychiatric observation to determine if he could be held criminally responsible for the about 21 stab wounds inflicted on Viljoen. Burger could not afford the costs of seeing a private psychiatrist, Maritz said. Magistrate Mbundu ordered that Burger should now undergo psychiatric evaluation at a State facility. He has to return to court on November 29. Alleged heroin dealer in custody A Tanzanian citizen who was deported from Namibia after he was convicted of dealing in heroin last year is back in Police custody for the same offence. Brown Ahamidu was arrested in Windhoek on Wednesday last week, following a Police operation in which he was allegedly caught selling two grams of heroin to members of the Drug Law Enforcement Unit. Ahamidu was deported from Namibia last year after he was convicted on another drugs charge involving heroin and sentenced to pay a fine. He allegedly returned to Namibia illegally. He appeared before Magistrate George Mbundu in the Windhoek Magistrate's Court on Thursday. His case was postponed to January 8 next year for further investigation. Ahamidu will remain in custody. |
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