An Aranos area farmer serving a 10-year prison term after being convicted of murdering his wife had another setback in the Windhoek High Court on Friday, when his attempt to appeal against his conviction failed to pass a first hurdle.
Jailed farmer Willem Barnard has no reasonable prospects of success with an appeal against his conviction, judge Naomi Shivute concluded in a ruling in which she refused an application by Barnard to be allowed to appeal to the Supreme Court against the verdict that she delivered in his trial eight months ago.
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