Heavy sentences for Walvis Bay assailants

The attackers of Walvis Bay resident Hans-Jörg Möller, who was fatally injured during a house robbery in June 2016, have received lengthy jail terms. The Namibian reports that Justice Dinnah Usiku sentenced Panduleni Gotlieb, David Tashiya, David Shekundja and Elly Hinaivali to 35 years' imprisonment. She told the High Court sitting at the Windhoek Correctional Facility that compared to the ‘vicious and inhumane way’ in which Möller and his wife were attacked in their home, the personal circumstances of the four men play an insignificant role. ‘In my view, what really carries considerable weight is that the accused persons have shown no remorse, none at all, for the terrible crimes they committed against innocent victims who were attacked in the privacy of their home, while sleeping,’ Usiku said. The four men were found guilty on six charges in July. Möller was shot in the abdomen during the robbery and died in a hospital a day later. His wife, Carol-Ann Möller, was seriously injured when she was assaulted during the robbery. She has told the court she sustained a brain injury that left her with a tremor. She identified Gotlieb as the person who fired the fatal shot that struck her husband. The four accused were also sentenced to a one-year prison term on a charge of conspiring to commit housebreaking and robbery and two jail terms of six months for possession of a firearm and ammunition without a licence.