Niël Terblanché
A 33-year-old woman was arrested in Swakopmund after she bludgeoned her boyfriend, the 40-year-old Luvuno Sylwell, to death with a blunt object during an argument in their rented room.
According to the incident report provided by the Namibian Police in the Erongo Region, the incident occurred at a house in Ondjamba Street in the Oletweni residential area of Mondesa at around 17:24 on Saturday.
Witnesses to the incident told investigating officers that the man and the woman returned from a neighbour’s house after drinking most of the day.
They locked themselves inside the rented room before a loud quarrel broke out between them.
A short while later the landlord’s wife heard the young woman screaming for help. When she went to the room the young woman told her to call the police.
When members of the Police arrived at the house, they found the gate to the room open and observed that a man was lying in a pool of blood while the woman was lying next to him trying to wake him up.
The victim was declared dead at the scene by ambulance personnel from the Swakopmund State Hospital.
According to the incident report, the woman was arrested shortly afterward.
