Staff Reporter
DENNIS Iipumbu Noa, a 31-year-old doctor at Onandjokwe Intermediate Hospital, appeared in the Ondangwa Magistrate’s Court on a charge of rape and was remanded in custody after the state opposed bail.
State Prosecutor Aina Magano Mwaala said the state opposed the granting of bail to Noa, stating that it has a prima facie case against the accused, that he may interfere with witnesses and that he may abscond. The matter was postponed to 27 October 2026 for a formal bail application.
It is alleged that Noa, on Friday, 17 July 2026, called the 26-year-old victim while he was at work and invited him to Oniipa to celebrate his new job and spend the weekend together.
According to the police, the complainant was dropped off at the hospital gate, where the suspect was waiting for him.
The two then went to the suspect’s room.
The complainant alleged that the suspect bought him drinks, including a Windhoek Draught beer and shots of Smirnoff 1818 vodka. He further alleged that after the suspect took two cups to the kitchen and returned, he later noticed what appeared to be a pill dissolving in his drink. After consuming it, he began feeling nauseous.
The complainant alleges that the suspect then sexually assaulted him. He told police that he managed to break free, broke a window to escape the locked room and ran away. He said he had no further recollection until he woke up in a hospital bed.
Noa was previously accused of raping a male patient on 11 April 2021 at Katutura Hospital, who had been unconscious and admitted to the head injury ward. The intern doctor had been found guilty and sentenced to eight years in prison.
In November 2024, the High Court overturned Noa’s rape conviction, finding that the state had failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he was guilty of the crimes for which he had been convicted, thus setting the young intern doctor free.
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