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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.<\/p>\n
This was purportedly an effort by the accused, Mecthilde Karomo, to demonstrate genuine remorse and seek leniency in her term of imprisonment.<\/p>\n
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…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":233841,"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":[7083,258,256,5203,304,54439,4706,724,257,7223,254,8402],"class_list":["post-233840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-accused","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-family","tag-murder","tag-n77","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-pays","tag-south-africa-today","tag-victims"],"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\/233840","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=233840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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