Staff Reporter A WOMAN identified as Stefnie Strauss, aged 32, along with her two daughters Grace Maargraf, aged 6, and Rechenay Maargraf, aged 2, were burnt to death after the shack they were sleeping in caught fire. According to Warrant Officer Tuyenikelao Tashiyato from the Erongo region, the tragedy happened on Wednesday, 31 January 2024,...
A SWAKOPMUND man was arrested on Monday after allegedly cutting his ex-girlfriend’s tongue in two with a pair of scissors. Erongo deputy commissioner Erastus Iikuyu says Nikanor Katolli (23) allegedly cut Soini Shihepo’s tongue at Mondesa on Sunday. “She sustained serious injuries,” he says. Katolli appeared in the Swakopmund Magistrate’s Court on Monday and was...
A 48-year-old man convicted of raping two of his daughters was sentenced in the Mariental Regional Court to an effective 20 years’ imprisonment on Friday. The man was convicted two weeks ago after a lengthy trial that started in August 2020. He was arrested in October 2014 on three counts of rape, but was acquitted...
A 48-year-old father of six children was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for raping his daughters, aged 10 and 12. The accused was 39 years old at the time of committing the horrid offences against his daughters. Regional Magistrate Frans Anderson sentenced the father, whose name cannot be disclosed to protect the identities of his...
