RETIRED Supreme Court Judge Pio Teek argued this week that his rights were trampled in Namibia's highest court when three South African judges set aside his discharge on six of the eight charges he was facing in a trial in the High Court in 2006.
"The judges messed up," Teek charged during a hearing before Zimbabwean High Court Judge Nicholas Ndou, appointed as an acting judge of Namibia's High Court, about the three judges of South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal who in April 2009, while serving as acting judges of appeal of Namibia's Supreme Court, ruled in favour of a State appeal against Teek's acquittal on charges which included counts of abduction and child rape.
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