A man convicted on six counts of murder after a car he was driving was involved in a deadly collision near Henties Bay in December 2014 has failed with a second attempt to appeal against his convictions and sentences.
Jandré Dippenaar’s application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court was dismissed in a judgement delivered in the Windhoek High Court on Friday.
Dippenaar requested to be permitted to appeal against a judgement in which a first appeal by him against his convictions and sentences was dismissed in the High Court in December last year.
He received an effective prison term of 15 years on six counts of murder at the end of his trial in the Swakopmund Regional Court in August 2024.
Dippenaar was the driver of a vehicle that was involved in a horror collision that claimed the lives of six people, including three members of a German family that was visiting Namibia, near Henties Bay on 29 December 2014.
His case was the first in Namibia’s legal history in which a road accident led to a prosecution and conviction on murder charges, rather than a count of culpable homicide.
