High Court Judge Christie Liebenberg last week sentenced the man he convicted of murdering an elderly farmer at Farm Villa Rosa in the Usakos district to an effective 36 years imprisonment.
The judge sentenced Haraseb to 30 years on the murder conviction, six years for housebreaking with intent to rob and robbery, four years for robbery with aggravating circumstances.
He was also slapped with one year for using a motor vehicle without the owner's consent, four years for defeating or obstructing the course of justice and one year and six months respectively on convictions of possession of a firearm and ammunition without a licence.
"As such, he was vulnerable and became the victim of a vicious attack by accused two (Haraseb) during which he was fatally wounded in the abdomen when shot twice with a rifle," the judge said.
The judge added crimes such as murder and robbery are prevalent throughout the country and every law-abiding citizen is shocked to the core at the rate of which these crimes are committed against the most vulnerable in society and the brutality and callousness that in most instances accompany them.
