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CoA resoundingly backs High Court on Morupisi verdict

Friday, November 22, 2024 | 1410 Views |

Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) chairperson, Carter Morupisi has his back against the wall on his corruption and money laundering sentence after the Court of Appeal(CoA) resoundingly agreed with the High Court on his guilty conviction.

A panel of three judges, CoA president Tebogo Tau, Justices Baaitse Nkabinde and Singh Walia agreed that trial court cannot be faulted for having ably connected the dots looking backwards at the intricate web of evidential material.

“The drawn-out web like bed of factual matrix contained in the record, delineated in the judgment a quo and further summarised above, sufficiently implicated the appellant beyond reasonable doubt,” said the judges.

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