Murder, rape dominate crime

The Namibian police are investigating a murder that took place in the Windhoek Psychiatric Hospital in late December, after a 29-year-old patient used a pen to fatally stab another patient in the neck.

The latest crime report confirmed the victim was Hangura Hausiku, 30. No arrests have been made to date and the investigation continues.

Another murder investigation was launched last week after a three-month-old baby girl died from a blunt force trauma to her head.

The investigation so far has revealed that the girl, Hengari Kaundenisa, was left at home by her mother with a 14-year-old boy and when she returned she discovered the baby had died and that her skull had been crushed.

No arrests have taken place to date and the investigation continues.

Men attack women

A 72-year-old pensioner's rape on 30 December in Henties Bay is being investigated by police.

The woman informed police that the suspect, age unknown, asked her for water in the early morning hours.

When she handed him the water, he “beat her to the ground and raped her”.

No arrest has taken place.

Multiple rapes of a 16-year-old girl between March and December 2018 at the Ongulumbashe location in Usakos, and assault and threats to kill her, has led the police to open a rape, and assault by threat, and common assault case.

The police report indicates that the case was brought to the attention of the police after the man violently attacked the minor, who is pregnant now, on Sunday 30 December, and threatened to kill her.

The suspect, 21, is known to police but has not yet been arrested.

Another rape on 28 December in the DRC location of a 21-year-old woman by a 28-year-old man is being investigated.

A violent domestic dispute between a 19-year-old woman and her 24-year-old boyfriend has resulted in his arrest for attempted murder after he attacked her with a panga and slashed her head and caused injuries to her hands as she tried to defend herself.

The attack took place in Ondangwa on 31 December during the early evening hours. The man has been arrested.

Another rape investigation was launched in Ongwediva, after a woman told police she had woken up and discovered a friend was having sexual intercourse with her without her consent.

The police investigation has revealed that a group of friends had returned from a party and the man assaulted her after they returned home and she fell asleep.



Dog protects owner

An armed robbery in Avis has been reported to police, after a young woman, 21, and her dog were attacked and robbed in her Avis home on New Year's Eve.

The violent robbery took place shortly before midnight on the last day of 2018 as the two attackers entered the house just after the victim's family left to view fireworks in the city centre of Windhoek.

According to a friend's report, the robbers threatened to kill the young woman during the attack, demanding she hand over a laptop and other items.

During the violent struggle, her dog, a large Boerboel, jumped up against the men in an attempt to protect her and was stabbed multiple times.

As the woman ran out of the house an employee of a private security company spotted her and rushed to provide assistance.

The robbers fled with a television set, a decoder and cell phone. To date no arrests have taken place.

Following the incident, the woman was taken to hospital to be treated for severe shock and the dog immediately taken to a veterinary clinic where she received life-saving surgery.

Friends soon reached out on a social media platform, sharing the story and appealing for assistance to cover the costs of the large veterinary bill.

Within two days the veterinary bill had been covered completely as the community banded together to assist the family.

JANA-MARI SMITH