Two men convicted of murdering an elderly farming couple near Koës in the //Kharas region in February 2018 have both been sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment.
Judge Dinnah Usiku sentenced the two men, Julius Arndt (47) and Andries Afrikaner (44), in the High Court at Windhoek Correctional Facility on Tuesday.
Arndt and Afrikaner were found guilty on two charges of murder, a count of housebreaking and robbery with aggravating circumstances, a charge of rape and a charge of conspiring to commit murder and robbery with aggravating circumstances in October last year.
Usiku found them guilty of murdering farming couple Giel and Sarie Botma, aged 78 and 80, respectively, after they had broken into the couple’s home on their farm near Koës during the night of 2 to 3 February 2018.
Arndt and Afrikaner were each sentenced to imprisonment for life on each of the two murder charges, a jail term of 15 years for rape, 10 years’ imprisonment for housebreaking and robbery, and 15 years in prison for conspiring to commit murder and robbery.
Giel and Sarie Botma were killed in a cruel and gruesome manner, and the two killers did not show remorse over their crimes, Usiku remarked during the
sentencing.
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