TWO men convicted of the brutal killing of a woman at Swakopmund in September 2005 were both sentenced to life imprisonment at the end of their trial in the Windhoek High Court on Friday.
Judge Nate Ndauendapo sentenced Kinsley Dausab (46) and Michael Tsowaseb (44) to a term of life imprisonment each on a charge of murder and to a concurrent jail term of one year on a count of violating a dead human body.
On an additional charge of theft, Tsowaseb was also sentenced to a one-year jail term, which the judge ordered to run concurrently with the life imprisonment as well.
The effect of the sentences is that Dausab and Tsowaseb are due to spend the next 25 years behind bars, before they would be eligible to be considered for release on parole.
Following a trial of which the start was repeatedly delayed when Dausab and Tsowaseb failed to appear in court and because of problems with their legal representation, Judge Ndauendapo in April this year convicted them of the murder of a 34-year-old woman, Menesia Owoses, during the night of 3 to 4 September 2005.
Owoses was found lying dead on an open piece of land at Swakopmund on 4 September 2005, after she had been seen in the company of two men during the previous evening.
A doctor who carried out an autopsy on her body found that she had been strangled and that her neck had been broken. He also recorded that her pubic area had been mutilated.
The murder of Owoses was gruesome, and it was made more disturbing by the mutilation of her genitalia after she had been killed, judge Ndauendapo commented during the sentencing.
“This was a senseless killing that warrants a severe sentence to be imposed on the accused persons,” he said.
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