Okombahe man guilty of murder
The High Court has convicted Trougoth Nanub of the intentional murder of Cheroline Dausas at Okombahe on 9 October 2012.
FRED GOEIEMAN
After a two-year trial the High Court in Windhoek yesterday ruled that a man from Okombahe had direct intent to kill his former girlfriend.
Judge Alfred Siboleka said in the summary of his judgement that Trougoth Nanub, chased after a fleeing Cheroline Dausas and stabbed her in the neck and chest.
“The accused is convicted of murder with direct intention to kill,” Siboleka ruled.
Nanub fatally stabled Dausas on 9 October 2012 at Okombahe in the Erongo Region.
Dr Sergie Strojev, who conducted the post-mortem examination, found the cause of death to be stab wounds to the left and right sides of her neck and a deep stab wound, penetrating her lung, on the right side of her chest.
“The deceased lost a lot of blood, Strojev stated in his report.
Prior to her death, Dausas had ended her relationship with Nanub and was in a relationship with Lazarus Nangombe.
During the evening of 9 October, she and Nangombe were walking to her mother’s home when Nanub called her and she went to him.
He started beating her and she ran away from him. He pursued her and stabbed her several times in the neck and chest, after which he ran to his father’s house.
Nangombe, assisted by a passer-by, rushed Dausas to a nearby clinic but she died of her wounds. She was declared dead at the clinic.
Nanub denied guilt at the start of the trial but did not furnish any plea explanation, putting the onus on the State to prove its case. He testified that he had been in a domestic relationship with Dausas up to the time of her death on 9 October.
The investigating officer, Simon Nghiteeka, testified that Nanub, after his arrest and interrogation, took the police to his father’s house to show them where he had hidden the knife.
Nurses Aletha Priscilla Gaes and Charlotte Khachus at the Okombahe Clinic testified that they saw milk flowing from Dausas’s breast and realised that she was breastfeeding.
According to them she told them that she had been stabbed by her ex-boyfriend.
Judge Siboleka said it the State had proved beyond reasonable doubt that Nanub had stabbed Dausas.
After a two-year trial the High Court in Windhoek yesterday ruled that a man from Okombahe had direct intent to kill his former girlfriend.
Judge Alfred Siboleka said in the summary of his judgement that Trougoth Nanub, chased after a fleeing Cheroline Dausas and stabbed her in the neck and chest.
“The accused is convicted of murder with direct intention to kill,” Siboleka ruled.
Nanub fatally stabled Dausas on 9 October 2012 at Okombahe in the Erongo Region.
Dr Sergie Strojev, who conducted the post-mortem examination, found the cause of death to be stab wounds to the left and right sides of her neck and a deep stab wound, penetrating her lung, on the right side of her chest.
“The deceased lost a lot of blood, Strojev stated in his report.
Prior to her death, Dausas had ended her relationship with Nanub and was in a relationship with Lazarus Nangombe.
During the evening of 9 October, she and Nangombe were walking to her mother’s home when Nanub called her and she went to him.
He started beating her and she ran away from him. He pursued her and stabbed her several times in the neck and chest, after which he ran to his father’s house.
Nangombe, assisted by a passer-by, rushed Dausas to a nearby clinic but she died of her wounds. She was declared dead at the clinic.
Nanub denied guilt at the start of the trial but did not furnish any plea explanation, putting the onus on the State to prove its case. He testified that he had been in a domestic relationship with Dausas up to the time of her death on 9 October.
The investigating officer, Simon Nghiteeka, testified that Nanub, after his arrest and interrogation, took the police to his father’s house to show them where he had hidden the knife.
Nurses Aletha Priscilla Gaes and Charlotte Khachus at the Okombahe Clinic testified that they saw milk flowing from Dausas’s breast and realised that she was breastfeeding.
According to them she told them that she had been stabbed by her ex-boyfriend.
Judge Siboleka said it the State had proved beyond reasonable doubt that Nanub had stabbed Dausas.
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