UK billionaire gets bail in Namibia farm shooting case

A British billionaire who allegedly shot dead his Namibian game park manager after making a drunken 'sex-for-rent' indecent proposal has been granted £25 000 bail. Harvey Boulter is accused of murdering Gerhard van Wyk after allegedly offering to allow his son to live on his vast estate in return for sex with his wife. The Daily Mail reports that witnesses told police Boulter pulled a gun and in the ensuing struggle it went off and a bullet went through his hand and into Van Wyk's stomach. Prosecutor Taodago Gaweseb said the allegations were so serious and that there was a probability of a lengthy jail sentence that it was not in the interests of justice to grant him bail. Boulter's lawyer, Sisa Namandje countered that he had ploughed £7.5m into the country during the 10 years he has lived there and been a permanent resident since 2017. The barrister said he was settled in Namibia and employed 40 people and was running an international business supplying encrypted communications technology around the world. Bail was granted on condition Boulter stays at a fixed address in Windhoek, reports to police once a week, and may not leave Windhoek District without police permission. He is charged with murder, possession of a firearm without a licence, illegal possession of ammunition and attempting to defeat the course of justice all connected to the shooting.