24 years for Shaningwa
Danne Rodney Shaningwa was yesterday sentenced to 24 years' imprisonment for shooting and killing a Finnish man during a road-rage incident on 9 August 2015.
Shaningwa (45) was sentenced by High Court Judge Christie Liebenberg after the same judge on 14 August found him guilty on a charge of murder with indirect intent, or 'dolus eventualis', in the sense that he should have foreseen that the shots he fired would kill Ronni Marco Kristian Uolevi.
Shaningwa was also found guilty on a second charge of defeating the course of justice for failing to report a car accident within 24 hours and hiding his car that was involved in the accident.
On the first charge, Shaningwa was sentenced to 24 years' imprisonment and on the second charge to four years in prison. The two sentences will run concurrently.
Shaningwa was declared unfit to possess a firearm for two years from the date of his release from prison.
The pistol Shaningwa used to shoot Uolevi was forfeited to the state.
“You - Danne Rodney Shaningwa - only expressed genuine remorse and accepted your responsibility in respect of the shooting shortly after the court had found you guilty as charged. You had acted extremely recklessly when you fired shots at the deceased's vehicle a few minutes after the deceased hit the rear part of your vehicle,” said Liebenberg when he handed down the sentence.
Shaningwa claimed that he fired the shots in self-defence after Uolevi threatened to run him over at around 00:30 in front of Joker's Pizzeria and Sports Bar in Windhoek.
He fired nine rounds, killing Uolevi, before driving off.
The police recovered the pistol upon Shaningwa's arrest at his home in Windhoek on 11 August 2015. He had been on the run for almost two days.
Carol-Ann Esterhuizen prosecuted. Slysken Makando appeared for Shaningwa, who owns a construction company and now leaves the business in the hands of his family.
He is a first-time offender.
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Shaningwa (45) was sentenced by High Court Judge Christie Liebenberg after the same judge on 14 August found him guilty on a charge of murder with indirect intent, or 'dolus eventualis', in the sense that he should have foreseen that the shots he fired would kill Ronni Marco Kristian Uolevi.
Shaningwa was also found guilty on a second charge of defeating the course of justice for failing to report a car accident within 24 hours and hiding his car that was involved in the accident.
On the first charge, Shaningwa was sentenced to 24 years' imprisonment and on the second charge to four years in prison. The two sentences will run concurrently.
Shaningwa was declared unfit to possess a firearm for two years from the date of his release from prison.
The pistol Shaningwa used to shoot Uolevi was forfeited to the state.
“You - Danne Rodney Shaningwa - only expressed genuine remorse and accepted your responsibility in respect of the shooting shortly after the court had found you guilty as charged. You had acted extremely recklessly when you fired shots at the deceased's vehicle a few minutes after the deceased hit the rear part of your vehicle,” said Liebenberg when he handed down the sentence.
Shaningwa claimed that he fired the shots in self-defence after Uolevi threatened to run him over at around 00:30 in front of Joker's Pizzeria and Sports Bar in Windhoek.
He fired nine rounds, killing Uolevi, before driving off.
The police recovered the pistol upon Shaningwa's arrest at his home in Windhoek on 11 August 2015. He had been on the run for almost two days.
Carol-Ann Esterhuizen prosecuted. Slysken Makando appeared for Shaningwa, who owns a construction company and now leaves the business in the hands of his family.
He is a first-time offender.
NAMPA
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