A REAR-END collision with a vehicle in Windhoek’s Independence Avenue in May 2006 continued having repercussions for an embattled senior officer of the Namibian Police, suspended Commissioner Neromba Lotti Uusiku, in the Windhoek Regional Court on Friday.
In a judgement delivered by Magistrate Sarel Jacobs, Uusiku (50) was found guilty of driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor and failing to provide a blood or breath specimen to traffic police officers after the crash in which he had been involved on May 8 2006.
Uusiku is scheduled to return to the Windhoek Regional Court on January 29 for the hearing of arguments on the sentence to be handed to him.
He pleaded not guilty to the charges on which he has now been convicted. He also denied a third charge – a count of reckless or negligent driving – on which Magistrate Jacobs acquitted him, finding that this charge was a duplication of the count of driving under the influence of liquor.
Uusiku was charged as a result of an incident in which a vehicle driven by him crashed into the rear end of a vehicle that was standing at a red traffic light on Independence Avenue in Katutura on the afternoon of May 8 2006.
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