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Monday, April 22, 2002 - Web posted at 8:56:08 pm GMT From Court, In Short - Windhoek bloodbath trial date setMAGGI BARNARD and WERNER MENGESSUSPENDED Policeman Stephanus Skeyer will go on trial in the High Court in Windhoek on November 5, he was told on Thursday. Skeyer (43) faces 13 charges, including two of murder. He is accused of fatally shooting Jacqueline Afrikaner (28) and George Alberts (18) in an alleged jealousy-fuelled shooting spree on June 29 2000. He allegedly went on a rampage, targeting relatives of his former girlfriend, due to the collapse of their relationship. Judge Sylvester Mainga told Skeyer on Thursday that he must be ready for his trial to proceed, whether he has legal representation or not, on November 5. Skeyer has refused to apply for legal aid, but cannot afford to pay for a defence lawyer himself. He again asked to be released on bail, only to be told, again, that he is to remain in custody. UIS resident Fillemon Goseb (42) has been sentenced to 26 years' imprisonment for kidnapping and raping an 11-year-old girl. Goseb received a 13-year sentence on both charges of rape and kidnapping on which Magistrate Gert Retief found him guilty in the Walvis Bay Regional Court the week before last. Goseb took the minor from the woman in whose custody she was and raped her between January 9 and 10 2000. THE repeatedly delayed judgement in the trial of alleged armed robbers Willy Winston van Wyk and Lesley Boois is now set to be delivered on August 2. The duo, who are charged with stealing N$1,02 million from a security company vehicle on Windhoek's Western Bypass on September 11 1998, were told in the High Court in Windhoek on Thursday that due to illness Judge Mavis Gibson would not be able to hand down her judgement as planned. The stolen money is still missing. Van Wyk and Boois have been in Police custody since late in September 1998. Their trial first started in October 1999. They remain in custody until August 2. Young burglars jailed THREE teenage burglars who admitted they broke into a house in Windhoek were sent to prison for between two years and 18 months last week. Magistrate Elsie Schickerling sentenced the trio, aged 15, 16 and 18 at the time of the housebreaking and theft on May 1 last year, in the Windhoek Magistrate's Court in Katutura on Thursday. Each of the three has had previous clashes with the law. The then 16-year-old, now aged 17, received an effective prison term of 18 months, his younger co-accused, who is now 16, was sentenced to 21 months in jail, and the oldest of the group, Norman Gretten, who was 18 at the time of the crime, was sentenced to a two-year prison term. An ecstatic change in fortunes WINDHOEK resident John van Zyl won a round against his frequent accusers in the Drug Law Enforcement Unit on Thursday when he was acquitted on charges of dealing in or possessing 125 ecstasy tablets. Van Zyl (20), represented by John Walters, was acquitted by Magistrate George Mbundu in the Windhoek Magistrate's Court just over a week after he had been re-charged in another case in which he is accused of having dealt in or possessed 21 and a half ecstasy pills in Klein Windhoek on November 30 last year. Magistrate Mbundu pronounced Van Zyl as acquitted as the State had, in the Magistrate's opinion, failed to prove his guilt beyond reasonable doubt. Van Zyl was arrested with a sealed package containing 125 ecstasy pills at the Windhoek bus terminal on March 24 last year. His defence was that he had gone to pick up the package on behalf of a friend, and did not know it contained a consignment of the forbidden amphetamine. |
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