Dausab gets 63 years

The killer of two defenceless women, who shot his girlfriend and her mother nine years ago at Okatuo in the Okahandja district, was severely punished yesterday in the High Court. Julius Dausab (48) was sentenced to 38 years for the murder, with direct intent, of his girlfriend, Paulina Kenamune (27) on 3 June 2009. Dausab had fathered two children with Kenamune during their seven-year relationship. He was further sentenced to 25 years for the murder of his girlfriend's mother, Elfriede Kenamune (44), on the same date. High Court Judge Alfred Siboleka further sentenced Dausab to two years each for unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition but ordered that the four years be served concurrently with the 38-year term. Dausab was declared unfit to possess a firearm. It was further ordered that the murder weapon, a .308 rifle, be handed back to its owner, Gerson Kaimseb. Lawyer Bradley Basson informed the court that his client had terminated his services after instructing him to inform the court that Dausab intended to appeal against his conviction and sentence. It is expected that another lawyer, Jan Wessels, will handle the application for leave to appeal. In February this year Judge Siboleka ended the questions that persisted for the past eight years around the shooting of the two women when he found Dausab guilty as charged. Basson argued in mitigation of sentencing that his client was not incapable of rehabilitation and pleaded for a sentence that would allow him to return to society and reunite with his children and family. But the judge stated that two defenceless women were gunned down with a .308 hunting rifle. “The murders were not committed on the spur of the moment, but were thoroughly premeditated and carefully executed,” the judge concluded. Siboleka said on the day of the murders Dausab had borrowed the rifle and took it with him when he went to Okatuo to visit Paulina Kenamune. He added that as usual Dausab and his girlfriend slept on the back of his Ford Cortina bakkie. During the night he shot Paulina Kenamune in the abdomen and thereafter shot through the door of the shack where Simon Kavendji and Elfriede Kenamune were sleeping. “The killings were gruesome and inhumane. This is aggravated by the fact that a high-velocity hunting rifle was used as a murder weapon,” Siboleka stated. He added that stiff sentences appeared not to be effective deterrents but the court remained committed to punishing murderers in a domestic setting severely. FRED GOEIEMAN

Dausab gets 63 years

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Namibian Sun 2026-08-18

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Dausab gets 63 years

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