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Original Post Date: 2010-11-29 Time: 13:00:03 Posted By: News Poster
By Werner Menges
MERCY and forgiveness – that is what Koës strangler Berendt Both wants from the judge who will be sentencing him on counts of murder and attempted rape at the end of this month.
“Even the heavenly Father forgives those who trespass and has mercy on them. That’s why I ask this court to apply the same principles in sentencing,” Both told Judge Collins Parker from the dock in the High Court in Windhoek on Friday. He made his plea for judicial absolution after his defence lawyer, Unanisa Hengari, had addressed the judge on the sentence that is to be imposed on Both on the two charges on which Judge Parker has found him guilty.
Both (35) was convicted of murder and attempted rape on September 22. He pleaded guilty to the murder charge, but denied guilt on two counts of rape, at the start of his trial on March 8.
Both admitted that he murdered the 37-year-old Magrietha Steenkamp at Koës, north-east of Keetmanshoop, during the night of December 2 to 3 2006. He also admitted that he tried to rape Steenkamp. On the second rape charge, he denied that he raped a 47-year-old woman at Koës during the night of May 12 to 13 2007, when he was free on bail of N$1 200 following his arrest for the murder of Steenkamp.
Both told the court in a plea explanation that when Steenkamp resisted his attempt to rape her, he strangled her with his bare hands. He then dragged her to a disused church building, where he left her and then went home, Both informed the court.
Both was arrested on the day after the murder. In a confession that he made to a magistrate a day after his arrest, he said he was boozed up on brandy when he attacked Steenkamp, with whom he was walking from a party they had both attended that evening.
Hengari told the court on Friday that Both, who is the father of four children with as many women, became a born again Christian in May this year. Even before this, he was already a regular churchgoer and Christian, following Steenkamp’s death, Hengari said.
“He changed his life and he only serves God,” Hengari told the court.
Hengari argued that Both’s state of drunkenness at the time of the strangling and attempt to rape Steenkamp should be taken as a mitigating factor by the court.
From the beginning of his trial, Both opened up to the court by tendering a guilty plea on the murder charge, which was a genuine sign of remorse on his part, Hengari argued.
He suggested that a prison term of 20 years for the murder, and a wholly-suspended sentence on the attempted rape charge, would be appropriate sentences for Both.
State advocate Dominic Lisulo suggested a prison term of 30 years on the murder charge and a five-year jail term for attempted rape. Lisulo argued that the circumstances under which Steenkamp was killed are aggravating.
Judge Parker scheduled Both’s sentencing for November 30.
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Original date published: 22 November 2010
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201011290989.html?viewall=1