{"id":226706,"date":"2026-03-12T13:33:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-woman-denies-double-murder-and-arson-in-okahandja-park-fire-trial\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T13:33:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:33:50","slug":"namibia-woman-denies-double-murder-and-arson-in-okahandja-park-fire-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-woman-denies-double-murder-and-arson-in-okahandja-park-fire-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Woman Denies Double Murder and Arson in Okahandja Park Fire Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><em>A Woman accused of carrying out an arson attack that claimed the lives of two people in Windhoek near the end of 2022 says she was sleeping when the fatal fire occurred.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">She was sleeping in her own house, close to that of her then boyfriend Leonard Haupindi, after they had been involved in a physical fight, double murder accused Mecthilde Karomo testified during her trial in the Windhoek High Court yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Karomo (33) said after she was woken up by someone alerting her that her house was&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603120076.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Woman accused of carrying out an arson attack that claimed the lives of two people in Windhoek near the end of 2022 says she was sleeping when the fatal fire occurred. She was sleeping in her own house, close to that of her then boyfriend Leonard Haupindi, after they had been involved in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":226707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,23290,7651,7053,6600,304,4706,724,257,30081,7191,254,6564,4307],"class_list":["post-226706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arson","tag-denies","tag-double","tag-fire","tag-murder","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-okahandja","tag-park","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trial","tag-woman"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}