Customize Consent Preferences

We use cookies to help you navigate efficiently and perform certain functions. You will find detailed information about all cookies under each consent category below.

The cookies that are categorized as "Necessary" are stored on your browser as they are essential for enabling the basic functionalities of the site. ... 

Always Active

Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.

No cookies to display.

Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.

No cookies to display.

Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

No cookies to display.

Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.

No cookies to display.

Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.

No cookies to display.

Investigations still not finalised in after-party murder case

Home Crime and Courts Investigations still not finalised in after-party murder case

Maria Amakali

Windhoek-Investigations into the case of a man accused of killing his colleague at a year-end work party during a shooting incident at a local bar in Windhoek are still not yet complete.

Julian Dawson, 38, is facing a murder charge in connection with the death of 35-year-old Sheku Bonifatius Tjihepo.
Dawson, who was granted N$10 000 bail in the Windhoek regional court in February this year, is still waiting for investigations into his case to be finalised so that he can stand trial and answer to the events that led to the death of his colleague.

Public prosecutor Munddia Cedrick informed the court on Friday that even though the court has a lab reference number, investigations are not yet finalised as lab results and photo plan are yet to be filed. Cedrick asked the court to postpone the matter to allow the investigations to be completed.

According to the substantial facts contained on the charge sheet, Dawson shot and killed Tjihepo unlawfully and intentionally at or near Ausspannplatz on 12 November 2016. Tjihepo died after being shot in the chest. It is alleged that Tjihepo and Dawson were in the company of friends and colleagues at a local bar in Ausspannplatz, Windhoek, when a fight broke out between the two.

During the argument, Dawson, who was in possession of a gun, pulled it out and started firing several shots at random within the club. Allegedly after the argument was over, Dawson got into another heated argument with another customer at the bar and once again fired three shots into the air. Tjihepo was shot while trying to wrestle the gun from Dawson, the charge sheet says. He died after one bullet penetrated his chest and another one hit him in the back.

Dawson will make his next appearance in court on September 29, after magistrate Elizabeth Mungunda postponed the case to allow for further police investigations.