A Namibian high court has decided to try a young man for having murdered his mother with an axe almost three years ago.
Judge Christie Liebenberg of the Windhoek High Court has fixed the delivery of his judgment of the trial to 5 October, according to The Namibian.
Siegfried Uirab went on trial in the Windhoek High Court on charges of murder, attempted murder and assault by threat in March this year.
He denied guilt on the three charges, but admitted that he assaulted his mother, Erika Uiras (63), with an axe at Otjimbingwe on 21 November 2013, and also hit his sister with the same weapon.
His mother, according to reports from The Namibian, was struck in the head with an axe and died in the Katutura Intermediate Hospital in Windhoek two days later.
Judge Liebenberg was about to deliver his judgment in Uirab’s trial five months ago, but he instead directed that Uirab should first go through another round of psychiatric observation to determine if he was fit to be tried.
Psychiatrist Reinhardt Sieberhagen stated in the ensuing report that Uirab’s ability to understand that what he was doing was wrong was reduced, and his ability to act upon that understanding was equally reduced.
Dr Sieberhagen noted that Uirab, who
reported having smoked cannabis during the afternoon before the murder, described an experience of having been possessed by a spirit at the time of the incident.
The psychiatrist diagnosed Uirab as having had a delusional disorder with cannabis intoxication and perceptual distortion at the time he was alleged to have murdered his mother.
Uirab had been a patient in the psychiatric unit of the Windhoek Central Hospital before he killed his mother, after he was referred to the unit with a diagnosis of substance induced psychosis.
State advocate Felistas Shikerete-Vendura and defence lawyer Titus Ipumbu both told the judge yesterday that they did not dispute the findings in the report of the psychiatrist.
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Judge Christie Liebenberg of the Windhoek High Court has fixed the delivery of his judgment of the trial to 5 October, according to The Namibian.
Siegfried Uirab went on trial in the Windhoek High Court on charges of murder, attempted murder and assault by threat in March this year.
He denied guilt on the three charges, but admitted that he assaulted his mother, Erika Uiras (63), with an axe at Otjimbingwe on 21 November 2013, and also hit his sister with the same weapon.
His mother, according to reports from The Namibian, was struck in the head with an axe and died in the Katutura Intermediate Hospital in Windhoek two days later.
Judge Liebenberg was about to deliver his judgment in Uirab’s trial five months ago, but he instead directed that Uirab should first go through another round of psychiatric observation to determine if he was fit to be tried.
Psychiatrist Reinhardt Sieberhagen stated in the ensuing report that Uirab’s ability to understand that what he was doing was wrong was reduced, and his ability to act upon that understanding was equally reduced.
Dr Sieberhagen noted that Uirab, who
reported having smoked cannabis during the afternoon before the murder, described an experience of having been possessed by a spirit at the time of the incident.
The psychiatrist diagnosed Uirab as having had a delusional disorder with cannabis intoxication and perceptual distortion at the time he was alleged to have murdered his mother.
Uirab had been a patient in the psychiatric unit of the Windhoek Central Hospital before he killed his mother, after he was referred to the unit with a diagnosis of substance induced psychosis.
State advocate Felistas Shikerete-Vendura and defence lawyer Titus Ipumbu both told the judge yesterday that they did not dispute the findings in the report of the psychiatrist.
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