Namibia: A N$77 000 Sorry … Murder Accused Pays Victim’s Family

During mitigating proceedings yesterday, the court heard that the deceased’s family, in the trial of a 34-year-old woman convicted of murder and arson, was paid N$77 000 by the murder accused.

This was purportedly an effort by the accused, Mecthilde Karomo, to demonstrate genuine remorse and seek leniency in her term of imprisonment.

Karomo was convicted earlier last month on two counts of murder with intent [dolus eventualis] and a count of arson. She was acquitted on an alternative charge of…