Petrus Damaseb

“Newly appointed Zimbabwean judge Moses Chinhengo, the lead judge for the Fishrot case, and judge president Petrus Damaseb should seize the moment and use the Fishrot trial as a case study to educate the public on how the judiciary works.”

“The heavy prison terms that the Combating of Rape Act prescribes for repeat rapists remain part of the law in Namibia until declared unconstitutional, High Court judge president Petrus Damaseb has said in a judgement on a prison inmate's attempt to appeal against a 45-year jail term that he received in 2006.”

“Damaseb dismissed the application for leave to appeal.”

“These were the remarks of judge president Petrus Damaseb in the High Court sitting at Katima Mulilo on Friday, when he sentenced Sydney Ikosa (37) to 20 years' imprisonment for murdering his two-year-old daughter Joy Ikosa in June 2020.”

“Judge president Petrus Damaseb convicted Kandjimi Haingura of murder, read with the provisions of the Combating of Domestic Violence Act, after concluding that an assault which Haingura carried out on his aunt at Gcigco, a village in Kavango West, on 12 June 2020 caused her death, that he was indifferent whether the assault would cause her death, and that he intended to bring about her death.”

“There were no substantial and compelling circumstances present in the case of Sem Shafoishuna Haufiku that warranted a departure from prison terms of 15 years prescribed by the Combating of Rape Act on each of the two rape charges on which Haufiku was found guilty, deputy chief justice Petrus Damaseb found in an appeal judgement delivered in the Supreme Court on Friday.”