Body parts suspect quizzed

A MAN suspected of killing the woman whose dismembered remains were found strewn around Grootfontein about a month ago spent the day being questioned in Police detention at Grootfontein yesterday.

The Police yesterday kept a tight lid on information about the suspect and his detention on Tuesday. All the Commanding Officer of the Police’s Public Relations and Liaison Division, Chief Inspector Angula Amulungu, would say on the matter was that a possible suspect was still in the hands of the Police at Grootfontein, and that he was being questioned about his wife.Whereas Amulungu had confirmed on Tuesday evening that someone had been arrested at Grootfontein during the afternoon, he said yesterday that the person had been detained for questioning, rather than arrested.The person was being questioned by Police officers yesterday, Amulungu said.Depending on the outcome of the questioning, a decision is expected to be taken this morning whether to formally charge him and take him to court for an appearance before a Magistrate, Amulungu indicated.A source has informed The Namibian that the detained suspect is a Kenyan national who is working at the Grootfontein State Hospital as a nurse.It is claimed that his wife disappeared around September 14, and that the suspect went on leave on September 17.He is claimed to have left Namibia on a month-long visit to Kenya around that time.On September 17, the head and forearms of a still-unnamed person were found in a black plastic refuse bag that had been discarded close to a road near the Grootfontein State Hospital.On September 22, further human body parts were found on the southwestern outskirts of Grootfontein.The Police initially reported that these parts were two legs, which had each been dissected at the knees, but later reported that in fact two lower legs and two upper arms had been found.The last body parts to be discovered at the town were a female torso and two thighs that were found again on the southwestern outskirts of the town and near Grootfontein’s private hospital respectively on September 25.The Police announced two days later that their investigations revealed that the throat of the woman whose body parts had been found, had been slit with a sharp object “which possibly caused her death”.All the Commanding Officer of the Police’s Public Relations and Liaison Division, Chief Inspector Angula Amulungu, would say on the matter was that a possible suspect was still in the hands of the Police at Grootfontein, and that he was being questioned about his wife.Whereas Amulungu had confirmed on Tuesday evening that someone had been arrested at Grootfontein during the afternoon, he said yesterday that the person had been detained for questioning, rather than arrested.The person was being questioned by Police officers yesterday, Amulungu said.Depending on the outcome of the questioning, a decision is expected to be taken this morning whether to formally charge him and take him to court for an appearance before a Magistrate, Amulungu indicated.A source has informed The Namibian that the detained suspect is a Kenyan national who is working at the Grootfontein State Hospital as a nurse.It is claimed that his wife disappeared around September 14, and that the suspect went on leave on September 17.He is claimed to have left Namibia on a month-long visit to Kenya around that time.On September 17, the head and forearms of a still-unnamed person were found in a black plastic refuse bag that had been discarded close to a road near the Grootfontein State Hospital. On September 22, further human body parts were found on the southwestern outskirts of Grootfontein.The Police initially reported that these parts were two legs, which had each been dissected at the knees, but later reported that in fact two lower legs and two upper arms had been found.The last body parts to be discovered at the town were a female torso and two thighs that were found again on the southwestern outskirts of the town and near Grootfontein’s private hospital respectively on September 25.The Police announced two days later that their investigations revealed that the throat of the woman whose body parts had been found, had been slit with a sharp object “which possibly caused her death”.