Samuel Shinedima
PETRUS Shoopala, the late Shannon Wasserfall’s boyfriend and alleged ex-boyfriend of Shannon’s murder accused, Azaan Madisia, said he had known the accused since they were children and that she had become a family friend whom they attended church with.
The father of the deceased’s child made these remarks during his testimony in court on Tuesday morning, adding that him and his then girlfriend (Shannon) lived together and that they had agreed to send their son to go and spend the weekend with the accused.
“On that day, I went for jogging and when I returned, I undressed and fell asleep. My girlfriend was doing laundry at the time. When I woke up, she was almost done. So, I helped her clean up the house and packed away the cleaning equipment” He testified.
Shoopala recounted that after they finished, he allegedly started giving his older son a hair cut who was visiting them at the time. His older son was then later picked up by his mother, shortly before Azaan arrived at their flat to collect Shannon and their son (aged two at the time). According to him, this was at around 12h00 to 13h00, on April 10 2020.
“I walked them out of the flat and they got into a pick up bakkie driven by the accused, which belonged to the company she worked for at the time. They left the house and so I went to rest” he added.
When questioned by the court whether there was any specific reason as to why they had to send their son specifically to the accused, Shoopala responded that there was no specific reason as to why they chose Azaan to stay with their child but merely added that Azaan is a family friend and that she loved their son.
“The deceased was actually just supposed to visit Azaan and she was supposed to have been dropped back to my flat. The plan was that our son would stay over at the accused’s house for the weekend”, Shoopala said.
It is his testimony that part of the plan was to actually have Junior (their child) get used to staying with other people apart from them, as they thought he was growing older and that he needed to learn to live without them at some point.
While Shoopala narrated that he remained waited for his girlfriend to be dropped back at his flat by the accused, he allegedly became worried and called the accused to ask about the whereabouts of the deceased. On that note, the accused had purportedly told him that Shannon had left her house and that she hasn’t returned ever since.
The Shannon murder case is currently underway in the High court of Namibia where the two Siblings Azaan Madisia and Steven Mulundu are being tried for allegedly having murdered Shannon Wasserfall on April 10 2020 in Namibia’s harbour town, Walvis bay. The duo is currently detained and represented by Albert Titus from Legal Aid, while Henry Muhongo from the state is prosecuting.
