Murder suspect tells court he was betrayed
A Windhoek City Police officer, Sergeant Conzetta
/Goagoses, this week informed the court that Andre Dausab gave her two letters written to the Namibian College of Open Learning (Namcol), his former employer and another one to Constancia Garises, a member of his family.
/Goagoses was testifying during Dausab’s trial in the Windhoek High Court. Dausab is accused of murdering his Botswana-born girlfriend who was a trainee pastor at the Paulinum Theological College in Windhoek in February 2014. The police officer told the court that in the letter Dausab wrote to his employer, he gave the reasons why he murdered 33-year-old Gofaone Motlamme. /Goagoses told the court that in the letter written to Garises, he told his family that he committed the crime because he had been betrayed.
Dausab, who was employed by Namcol as an IT-technician has pleaded not guilty to the murder charge read in conjunction with Combating of Domestic Violence Act.
The court also heard that in his letter to Namcol, he also informed the company about his resignation.
“I wanted to marry Gofaone but God will tell everything. I feel that I was used. Tell my daughters to be honest and to always tell the truth,” he allegedly said in the letter which was read in court record and later recorded as an exhibit.
/Goagoses further told the court that the accused told her that the deceased had once ended the affair but they reconciled later. According to Dausab, Motlamme’s termination of the relationship was compelled by alleged infidelity rumours that the deceased’s family had informed her of.
Dausab and Motlamme had an on-and-off relationship but no one knows the reason that led to the break-up before the fatal incident. In his plea explanation recently, Dausab admitted that he was with the deceased at the Paulinum College in Windhoek on the day he allegedly murdered his girlfriend, stabbing her several times.
The trial continues before Judge Naomi Shivute. State Advocate Ethel Ndlovu is prosecuting while Brownell /Uirab defends Dausab.
FRED GOEIEMAN
/Goagoses was testifying during Dausab’s trial in the Windhoek High Court. Dausab is accused of murdering his Botswana-born girlfriend who was a trainee pastor at the Paulinum Theological College in Windhoek in February 2014. The police officer told the court that in the letter Dausab wrote to his employer, he gave the reasons why he murdered 33-year-old Gofaone Motlamme. /Goagoses told the court that in the letter written to Garises, he told his family that he committed the crime because he had been betrayed.
Dausab, who was employed by Namcol as an IT-technician has pleaded not guilty to the murder charge read in conjunction with Combating of Domestic Violence Act.
The court also heard that in his letter to Namcol, he also informed the company about his resignation.
“I wanted to marry Gofaone but God will tell everything. I feel that I was used. Tell my daughters to be honest and to always tell the truth,” he allegedly said in the letter which was read in court record and later recorded as an exhibit.
/Goagoses further told the court that the accused told her that the deceased had once ended the affair but they reconciled later. According to Dausab, Motlamme’s termination of the relationship was compelled by alleged infidelity rumours that the deceased’s family had informed her of.
Dausab and Motlamme had an on-and-off relationship but no one knows the reason that led to the break-up before the fatal incident. In his plea explanation recently, Dausab admitted that he was with the deceased at the Paulinum College in Windhoek on the day he allegedly murdered his girlfriend, stabbing her several times.
The trial continues before Judge Naomi Shivute. State Advocate Ethel Ndlovu is prosecuting while Brownell /Uirab defends Dausab.
FRED GOEIEMAN
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