Namibia: Assault on child, dumping of body recounted in statement – Africa Links 24

“I was afraid of him at that moment because I looked at him as a murderer, and I followed everything he was saying.”

This claim is part of a statement Zimbabwean citizen Caroline Nkata, who is being prosecuted in connection with the death of a girl (9) in Windhoek four and a half years ago, made to a magistrate after her arrest.

Nkata’s statement, which was recorded by magistrate Alweendo Venatius on 28 January 2020, became part of the evidence in her trial in the Windhoek High…