Namibia: Murder of toddler ‘brutal, inhuman’, judge says – National

“Brutal and inhuman, and for no reason at all.”

This was the description judge Claudia Claasen gave in the Windhoek High Court on Tuesday of the murder of a two-year-old boy who was killed by his father at Otavi two years ago.

Claasen said this during the sentencing of Thomas Muronga (30), who admitted guilt on a charge of murder, read with the provisions of the Combating of Domestic Violence Act, and counts of assault by threat and assault on a member of the Namibian Police two…