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Namibia: 23-year prison term for woman who murdered baby in ||Kharas – News

Namibia: 23-year prison term for woman who murdered baby in ||Kharas – News

Africa Links 24 with Werner Menges
Published on 2025-11-21 09:07:38

A former police officer who murdered her one-year-old son in the ||Kharas region in January 2023 was sentenced to a prison term of 23 years on Friday.

Judge Philanda Christiaan sentenced Lucia Boois (37) to 23 years’ imprisonment on a charge of murder, read with the provisions of the Combating of Domestic Violence Act, and to a concurrent prison term of two years on a count of defeating or obstructing the course of justice.

Boois was found guilty on the two charges on…

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