||Kharas child-rape trial verdict in September

TWO men accused of raping a pre-teenage girl at Noordoewer in the ||Kharas region on separate occasions almost six years ago are due to receive the verdict in their trial in the Windhoek High Court in September.

Judge Naomi Shivute postponed the delivery of her judgement in the trial of Noordoewer residents Dirk von Weidts (75) and Jors Arrie (49) to 14 September after hearing closing oral arguments from state advocate Anna Amukugo and defence lawyers Milton Engelbrecht and Joseph Andreas yesterday.

Von Weidts and Arrie are both accused of raping or indecently assaulting a girl at Noordoewer between October 2020 and January 2021.

The girl was 10 years old at the start of that period of time, and had turned 11 by January 2021.