Namibia: Lawyer Quits Rape Trial

THE trial of an Okahandja resident accused of raping an 80-year-old woman in her home failed to start as scheduled in the Windhoek Regional Court yesterday, after the suspect's lawyer withdrew from the case.

The prosecution's first witnesses in the trial of Verikaye Kapuire (29), including the elderly and frail woman he is accused of raping, were at court, ready to testify, when the withdrawal of defence lawyer Titus Mbaeva threw the scheduled start of Kapuire's trial off track.

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