However, documents forming part of the inquest show that the age of Kristine Ndeshihafela Kuneni Sadrach remains in dispute.

Also, more details have emerged on the run-up to her suicide, which she ascribed to "personal problems".

She said in a suicide note that NamPol Deputy Inspector General Fritz Nghiishililwa could explain further.

Magistrate Elina Nandago who conducted the inquest declared that the age "was too difficult to determine due to contradiction" in the docket.

Sadrach's age has become a heated matter with concerns that Nghiishililwa had a love affair with a minor.

Her mother is adamant that she was born on March 3 1986.

At the Augustineum Secondary School in Windhoek, where she was in Grade 10 at the time of her death, Sadrach's date of birth is listed as December 18 1984.

Her involvement with a man at least 25 years her senior led to a national debate about "sugar daddies" - older men who buy material things in return for romance, usually with minor schoolgirls.

A copy of Sadrach's birth certificate bears out what her mother, Veronika Nghishikungu says.

The original could not be found, Deputy Commissioner Marius Visser, who investigated the suicide said.

Nghiishililwa, who has insisted he did no wrong in having an affair with a Grade 10 pupil, whom he called his fiancee, claimed in a statement that Sadrach had told him she was 23 years old and employed at a "computer outlet".

The Major General, who was until recently in charge of Operations at NamPol, said he later discovered that she was in fact a schoolgirl.

"From there I started to financially assist her.

This is in accordance with my tradition," he said.

Nghiishililwa said his relationship with his purported fiancee "was good" until Sadrach complained that her aunt, Veronica Naidila, wanted it stopped.

He said Naidila, who was his girlfriend in the 1980s, had agreed to the betrothal.

Naidila denied that, saying she dismissed his proposal as "ridiculous".

The senior Police officer also claimed Sadrach was under "extreme pressure and intimidation" to end the affair.

On the morning of June 5 this year she telephoned Nghiishililwa several times and invited him to her house in Suiderhof, Windhoek.

He said she told him the house will be locked and that he should jump the wall and find the keys "behind the house" in order to get her inside the house.

The invitation was "suspicious", said Nghiishililwa.

He called a Deputy Commissioner Endjala to tell him of the "suspicious invitation".

He then "summoned" Chief Inspector Rosalia Nailonga Shatilwe, Commander of the Women and Child Protection Unit to his office and asked her to investigate.

An officer who went to Nghiishililwa with Shatilwe said he referred to Sadrach as "a distant relative" and not a fiance.

He reportedly told several cops that she had threatened to commit suicide.

The Policeman, Efraim Nembia, said in a court document that Nghiishililwa "gave us the order to go and listen to the girl's problem and give her some counselling if possible and refer her to the social workers".

They failed to find the house as explained on a note by Nghiishililwa.

By the time they found the house, Sadrach had died.

While Nghiishililwa seems to suggest Sadrach committed suicide because of family pressure against the relationship, Naidila said he had told them she hanged herself "because of another woman" in the Major General's life.

The Namibian understands that the family was not aware the inquest was concluded in the first week of this month.

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