Namibia: Ex-Magistrate Gets Two-Year Jail Term Over Corruption

16 September 2019

A FORMER magistrate who corruptly pocketed payments from traffic offenders was sentenced to an effective jail term of two years on Friday.

Law graduate and former magistrate Melaney Theron was motivated by greed, rather than need, and broke the oath she had taken to uphold the law when she corruptly accepted payments of approximately N$6 000 from people who had been issued with traffic tickets at Oshakati, judge Nate Ndauendapo remarked during her sentencing in the Windhoek High Court.

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