FORMER Namibian Institute of Mining and Technology (Nimt) employee Ernst Lichtenstrasser has been found guilty of murdering the institute’s two top executives in April 2019.
Lichtenstrasser (62) was convicted on two counts of murder and six other charges in a judgement delivered in the Windhoek High Court on Thursday.
His denials that he killed Nimt executive director Eckhart Mueller (72) and his deputy, Heimo Hellwig (60), by gunning them down at Arandis on 15 April 2019, are false, judge Christie Liebenberg said when he delivered his verdict in Lichtenstrasser’s trial.
During the trial, which started in February 2021, Lichtenstrasser denied guilt on all charges.
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