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Namibia: Judges increase Hardap man’s prison term on rape charge – News

Namibia: Judges increase Hardap man’s prison term on rape charge – News

Africa Links 24 with Werner Menges
Published on 2025-02-24 17:19:05

A Hardap region resident has reason to regret his appeal against the jail term he received on being convicted of rape, after the appeal resulted in an increase of his sentence from 13 years’ imprisonment to 20 years.

Dosantos Gomaseb’s sentence was increased in an appeal judgement delivered in the Windhoek High Court on Friday.

In the court’s decision, judge Naomi Shivute found that the Mariental Regional Court magistrate who sentenced Gomaseb in February 2022, after convicting…

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