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The Namibian
Mon 12 Aug 2013
SMS Of The Day * MINISTRY of Gender and Child Welfare, TEARS are rolling down as I write this SMS. The killing of women in Namibia is now like reciting a poem. Are we really getting the protection we deserve while women not being treated as part of this c Food For Thought * SO the Zimbabwe elections were free and peaceful and not free and fair? Bouquets And Brickbats * NURSES at Katutura Hospital must stop wearing those big plastic sandals at work because they are not the official working shoes. We want to see you looking smart and beautiful with your full uniform. SMS Of The Day * THIS nation is in dire need of a massive conference on housing. When we experienced a crisis in the education sector a crisis-control brain-storming conference was organised which resulted in the best deal ever for the Namibian child, nam Food For Thought * BOURGEOISIE has become a daily occupation if not the order of the day of the upper-echelons, President Hifikepunye Pohamba we urge you to revisit this unpatriotic geocentricism among your staff and the well-connected, for everybody to r Bouquets And Brickbats * COMMISSIONER of Prisons, can you please explain the strategies you use to appoint officers to certain positions? It is my observation that you are being fed with wrong information then you just promote individuals without making p SMS Of The Day * I THINK Paulus ‘The Rock’ Ambunda lost his belt because of this promoter and trainer. How can a world champion still be training at the Katutura Youth Complex where there is not enough equipment. I think they must follow the example of Ha Food For Thought * NAMIBIA Dairies are unable to match low prices of imported milk and this ultimately means the consumer will have to pay more for local milk. Look at the prices of the local chicken. All these profits are going in the pockets of a few in Bouquets And Brickbats * I AM pleased to hear that Cabinet has responded positively to the proposal of Namibia Dairies to support the industry. The restrictions which support the industry by reducing competition to ensure the survival of the industry is a SMS Of The Day * CEO’s golden handshakes. Somewhere on our statute books there must be a provision that if a board of directors suspends/dismisses a CEO without due regard to legal provision (substantive/procedural law) such board must carry the costs for Food For Thought * JACKY Asheeke was so right with her last column- why are the fathers of the dead children not being prosecuted? (Reference to the children who died in shack fires last week) Our justice system still protects men over women. In this cont Bouquets And Brickbats * ALEXACTUS Kaure, your column in Friday’s newspaper opened my eyes. One hardly finds impartial case study analysers in Namibia. Let’s not destroy the Polytechnic’s strong foundation (Tjivikua) as yet. At least wait until the transf
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NEWS - NAMIBIA | 2013-07-25
Romeo Schiefer
Schiefer to wait longer
Werner Menges
THE delivery of the verdict in the double murder trial of Windhoek resident Romeo Schiefer, who is accused of having killed his parents at the start of 2008, was postponed for two months in the Windhoek High Court yesterday.
The verdict was due to be delivered yesterday, but Judge Naomi Shivute informed Schiefer that her judgement was not yet ready, due to circumstances beyond her control. The new date set for the delivery of the judgement is 25 September.
Schiefer’s trial started in the High Court in Windhoek on 3 March 2011, when he pleaded not guilty to two charges of murder and one count of robbery with aggravating circumstances.
He is accused of having murdered his parents, Frans and Francina Schiefer (both aged 50), in their home in Khomasdal in Windhoek on the evening of 18 January 2008, and having stolen a bank card and its PIN code from them on the same evening.
Schiefer (24) has been in custody since being arrested in connection with the double murder on the day after the incident.
Deputy Prosecutor General Belinda Wantenaar argued two months ago that Schiefer should be found guilty on all three charges.
A major pillar of the prosecution’s case against Schiefer is an alleged confession which he made to a senior police officer the day after the murder of his parents.
Schiefer however claimed during his trial that he was influenced and forced to make the confession, and that police officers involved in interrogating him had instructed him what to say when he made the statement.
In the confession, Schiefer said he was “triggered” when his mother scolded him over his schoolwork and accused him of not wanting to learn.
He related that he “decided that this is enough”, and that he then took a knife from a drawer and attacked his mother with it. Having stabbed her, he went to the room where his father was sleeping, took a pistol from a wardrobe, and shot his father in the head, he claimed.
When he then saw that his mother was still alive, he fired several shots at her, too, and also stabbed her again, before he left the house to spend the evening with friends, he related.
Schiefer’s defence counsel, Winnie Christians, argued that the confession should be excluded as evidence in the trial.
Christians argued that the testimony that Schiefer’s right to be represented by a lawyer had been explained to him before he first implicated himself in connection with the double murder was not credible, and should not be accepted by the court.
He also argued that the version given by Schiefer in the confession lacked a lot of detail, was not consistent with other evidence in respect of the murders, and ultimately should leave the court with serious doubt whether Schiefer indeed was present when his parents were killed. Wantenaar argued that there was other evidence, except for the disputed confession, that also implicated Schiefer.
This included the testimony of a lodger of the murdered couple who told the court that she heard Mrs Schiefer calling out her son’s name, and Schiefer then answering, after hearing the first of a succession of gunshots.
She further heard another five or six shots being fired after she had heard Schiefer’s voice responding to his mother’s cry, the witness told the court.
Schiefer’s trial started in the High Court in Windhoek on 3 March 2011, when he pleaded not guilty to two charges of murder and one count of robbery with aggravating circumstances.
He is accused of having murdered his parents, Frans and Francina Schiefer (both aged 50), in their home in Khomasdal in Windhoek on the evening of 18 January 2008, and having stolen a bank card and its PIN code from them on the same evening.
Schiefer (24) has been in custody since being arrested in connection with the double murder on the day after the incident.
Deputy Prosecutor General Belinda Wantenaar argued two months ago that Schiefer should be found guilty on all three charges.
A major pillar of the prosecution’s case against Schiefer is an alleged confession which he made to a senior police officer the day after the murder of his parents.
Schiefer however claimed during his trial that he was influenced and forced to make the confession, and that police officers involved in interrogating him had instructed him what to say when he made the statement.
In the confession, Schiefer said he was “triggered” when his mother scolded him over his schoolwork and accused him of not wanting to learn.
He related that he “decided that this is enough”, and that he then took a knife from a drawer and attacked his mother with it. Having stabbed her, he went to the room where his father was sleeping, took a pistol from a wardrobe, and shot his father in the head, he claimed.
When he then saw that his mother was still alive, he fired several shots at her, too, and also stabbed her again, before he left the house to spend the evening with friends, he related.
Schiefer’s defence counsel, Winnie Christians, argued that the confession should be excluded as evidence in the trial.
Christians argued that the testimony that Schiefer’s right to be represented by a lawyer had been explained to him before he first implicated himself in connection with the double murder was not credible, and should not be accepted by the court.
He also argued that the version given by Schiefer in the confession lacked a lot of detail, was not consistent with other evidence in respect of the murders, and ultimately should leave the court with serious doubt whether Schiefer indeed was present when his parents were killed. Wantenaar argued that there was other evidence, except for the disputed confession, that also implicated Schiefer.
This included the testimony of a lodger of the murdered couple who told the court that she heard Mrs Schiefer calling out her son’s name, and Schiefer then answering, after hearing the first of a succession of gunshots.
She further heard another five or six shots being fired after she had heard Schiefer’s voice responding to his mother’s cry, the witness told the court.
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