Staff Reporter
THE aunt of a man whose body was discovered in Otjomuise this morning with his private parts cut off says that the deceased left home yesterday with a female friend.
The victim is identified as Christof Frederick. The murder follows in the wake of the deaths of Gurney Elrich Uirab who was stabbed and left for dead in the Soweto location in Tsumeb on Saturday 23 March 2024, and that of Lucky Uwuseb who was also found dead on 6 March 2024, decomposed in a river bed. Over the past year a total of six queer people have been murdered so far, stoking fears that hate crimes may be on the rise in the country.
According to Chief Inspector Elifas Kuwinga, media liaison officer within the Namibian police, the lifeless body of the 30-year-old Namibian male was discovered by a passerby on Thursday, 2 May 2024, around 07:00 in Otjomuise, in a riverbed next to the Chairman Mao Zendong High School in Otjomuise.
Kuwinga explained that the body has multiple stab wounds and the private part of the deceased was cut off and placed on his chest.
“What is suspected to be his clothes were found at a distance from the body along Ghanzi Street, as well as several blood spots along the road. According to the deceased’s aunt, he left home yesterday morning between 10 and 11 in the company of a female friend and never returned home. The last they heard is that they parted ways with the friend at the Otjomuise shops, until the discovery of his mutilated body this morning. Investigations continue,” Kuwinga said.
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