Alleged girlfriend killer pleads today JEMIMA BEUKES A 29-year-old man has handed himself over at the Katutura police station after killing the mother of his 15-month-old baby on Wednesday evening.
The deceased is identified as 27-year-old Suri Metarere Kanguvi.
According to Inspector Slogan Matheus, spokesperson of the Namibian police, the man and woman quarrelled which resulted in him stabbing her with a screwdriver three times in the chest.
“It is alleged that, the woman took the child to the suspect’s house and an argument erupted between them which led to a fight, resulting in the suspect stabbing the victim with a screw driver three times on the upper body, the victim was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident by the paramedics,” said Matheus.
The suspect is expected to appear in the Katutura Magistrate’s Court today.
Meanwhile the police are still hunting for a Zimbabwean national accused of killing his Namibian girlfriend in Windhoek last month. According to Matheus, all border controls posts are on high alert about the wanted suspect.
“We have also mobilised all our counterparts in countries bordering Namibia and the search for the suspect is on-going,” he said.
In a separate incident, a 19-year-old boy died on Wednesday evening after being stabbed three times by an 18-year-old boy at a shebeen, in Etanga Street, Freedomland, around 20:00.
According to City Police spokesperson Cillie Auala, the incident happened after a fight broke out over a bottle of Capenheimer wine.
“The suspect is still at large, but a case of murder was opened at Katutura police station,” she said.