A 34-year-old Ralton Juan Christopher Koetaan was found guilty yesterday by the Port Elizabeth High Court for murdering his s3x client, Jean Lombard (69).
Born in Namibia, raised in the Free State, educated in Gauteng and both feared and revered as a high court judge in Gqeberha, Irma Schoeman’s illustrious legal career has almost come to a close.
The Gqeberha high court has frozen about R20m worth of assets belonging to a list of people accused of fraud and corruption for allegedly siphoning millions of rand from the beleaguered Integrated Public Transport System (IPTS).
Unhappy with the trial judge’s refusal to grant Pastor Timothy Omotoso leave to appeal against a decision not to order a mistrial in his human trafficking case, the televangelist will now turn to the Supreme Court of Appeal.