No decision yet in case of graveyard rape suspect

FORMER security guard Adolf Kahoro, who is charged with having raped and tried to murder a woman at Windhoek’s Pionierspark Cemetery a year ago, is set to wait for at least another month before he hears in which court and on what charges he will be tried.

Kahoro (24) made a short and quiet reappearance before Magistrate Tuyenikelao Haikango in the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. He was told that the Prosecutor General’s decision on his case was not yet available.He will now have to appear in court on March 8 to hear what charges he is to face and where he will be tried.Kahoro remains in custody in the meantime.He was arrested two days after the complainant in his case, a Windhoek woman aged in her 50s, was raped and shot through the neck when she visited the Pionierspark Cemetery on the afternoon of January 21 last year.It is claimed that Kahoro was stationed on guard duty at the cemetery by a security firm that was contracted to safeguard the premises.Having shot her, the suspect fled in the woman’s vehicle.This was found abandoned next to a rail track on the southern outskirts of Windhoek later the same evening.Kahoro is claimed to have confessed his guilt in a statement taken down by a Magistrate the day after his arrest.Since then he appears to have had a change of mind, though.On September 15 last year he pleaded not guilty to all three charges that he is facing so far – rape, attempted murder and robbery with aggravating circumstances.He was told that the Prosecutor General’s decision on his case was not yet available. He will now have to appear in court on March 8 to hear what charges he is to face and where he will be tried. Kahoro remains in custody in the meantime. He was arrested two days after the complainant in his case, a Windhoek woman aged in her 50s, was raped and shot through the neck when she visited the Pionierspark Cemetery on the afternoon of January 21 last year. It is claimed that Kahoro was stationed on guard duty at the cemetery by a security firm that was contracted to safeguard the premises. Having shot her, the suspect fled in the woman’s vehicle. This was found abandoned next to a rail track on the southern outskirts of Windhoek later the same evening. Kahoro is claimed to have confessed his guilt in a statement taken down by a Magistrate the day after his arrest. Since then he appears to have had a change of mind, though. On September 15 last year he pleaded not guilty to all three charges that he is facing so far – rape, attempted murder and robbery with aggravating circumstances.