Namibia: Cocaine Smuggler Fails With Appeal Against Sentence

A Brazilian serving a nine-year prison term after being caught trying to smuggle one kilogramme of cocaine into Namibia has failed in an appeal against his sentence.

Bruno Lourenço Bastos’ appeal against his sentence was dismissed in the Windhoek High Court on Friday, after two judges concluded there was no misdirection by the magistrate who sentenced Bastos in the Windhoek Regional Court at the end of January last year.

Judge Philanda Christiaan remarked in the appeal judgement: “Unfortunately,…