WINDHOEK – A 34-year-old man turned on his 30-year-old girlfriend with a knobkerrie, beating her on the head and all over the body.
The woman had to be rushed to hospital where she is currently receiving treatment for the severe bruises sustained in the beating. She is in a critical condition, according to the head of the police Public Relations Division, Deputy Commissioner Edwin Kanguatjivi. The incident happened last Friday at 21h00 at Uutsathima, a village, in the Okahao constituency. Police in the Erongo Region are investigating a case of stock theft in the Karibib area where a lot of cattle were stolen from different farms, some of them where found at the suspect’s farm, while some are believed to have been slaughtered and the skins buried on the suspect’s rented property.
The suspect is a Warrant Officer in the police force who resigned at the end of December last year. The suspect has not yet been arrested and has simply disappeared according to the police. Two of his workers, their friends and a friend of his whom the suspect allegedly sent to claim the cattle as his so that he could pay them have been arrested for defeating and/or obstructing the course of justice. On Saturday at the saltpan in Walvisbay, a vehicle with five occupants overturned killing two people on the spo. The incident took place at around 4h30 am.
By Tunomukwathi Asino