35 years for killing ex

A 26-year-old Otjiwarongo man was sentenced to 35 years in jail for the murder of his former girlfriend during March 2013.Edmund Jagger, 26, was found guilty in July in connection with the murder of Renelda Alien Oamite Hoeses, 22, at her parents' home in Orwetoveni, Otjiwarongo. He stabbed her with a knife 18 times all over the body. This was after she informed him that she is in love with someone else and that she wanted to end their relationship. Hoeses died at the scene due to severe blood loss after the brutal stabbing. Jagger fled after which he attempted to commit suicide by hanging himself with a wire. When the police cut him from the wire he was found in possession of the blood-stained knife he had used to kill Hoeses. Judge Alfred Siboleka in sentencing said it appears that brutality perpetrated by male persons on their female partners is increasing despite the community's pleas that it should be halted and added that the imposition of heavy custodial sentences on perpetrators of these crimes does not seem to calm down this tendency. “Some male persons continuously appear to be under the impression that they are entitled to end the lives of their female partners whenever they see fit, which is totally unacceptable,” Siboleka lamented. According to him, the court in considering the sentence, takes into account that Jagger is a first offender, was trial-awaiting for four years and five months, and at the time of the murder, he had already relocated to another residence.He however said, from the evidence it clearly appears that he came back to the deceased's residence to forcibly take away his still breastfed child despite Hoeses and the police previously telling him not to do so.Siboleka sentenced Jagger for murder with direct intent read in conjunction with the provisions of the Domestic Violence Act to 35 years' imprisonment. FRED GOEIEMAN

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