Cemetery rape case sent to Regional Court

FORMER security guard Adolf Kahoro, who is accused of raping and attempting to murder a woman at Windhoek’s Pionierspark Cemetery early last year, is set to be tried in the Windhoek Regional Court.

Kahoro (24) made his 10th appearance on charges of rape, attempted murder and robbery with aggravating circumstances in the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court last Tuesday. This was more than a month earlier than the date that he had been scheduled to return to court to hear what the Prosecutor General had decided about his prosecution.Kahoro is accused of raping a 55-year-old woman on January 21 last year.He is also accused of trying to murder the woman by shooting her in the neck with the firearm that he was carrying while deployed at the cemetery as a security guard.Kahoro has been in Police custody since his arrest two days after the incident.According to the PG’s instructions, Kahoro will be arraigned in the Windhoek Regional Court on charges of rape, attempted murder, and robbery with aggravating circumstances.Magistrate Rina Horn informed him that he will have to make a first appearance in that court on May 7 for the date of his trial to be set.She ordered that he remain in custody in the meantime.One of the results of the decision to try him in the Regional Court is that, if the court convicts Kahoro, it will not be able to sentence him to more than 20 years imprisonment on any of the charges that he might be found guilty of.With the court having the power to order that sentences that it imposes on separate charges should not run simultaneously, though, he could eventually face an effective prison term beyond 20 years – if he is found guilty.This was more than a month earlier than the date that he had been scheduled to return to court to hear what the Prosecutor General had decided about his prosecution.Kahoro is accused of raping a 55-year-old woman on January 21 last year.He is also accused of trying to murder the woman by shooting her in the neck with the firearm that he was carrying while deployed at the cemetery as a security guard.Kahoro has been in Police custody since his arrest two days after the incident.According to the PG’s instructions, Kahoro will be arraigned in the Windhoek Regional Court on charges of rape, attempted murder, and robbery with aggravating circumstances.Magistrate Rina Horn informed him that he will have to make a first appearance in that court on May 7 for the date of his trial to be set.She ordered that he remain in custody in the meantime.One of the results of the decision to try him in the Regional Court is that, if the court convicts Kahoro, it will not be able to sentence him to more than 20 years imprisonment on any of the charges that he might be found guilty of.With the court having the power to order that sentences that it imposes on separate charges should not run simultaneously, though, he could eventually face an effective prison term beyond 20 years – if he is found guilty.