It was also confirmed yesterday that the results of forensic examinations that the Police asked to be done as part of their investigation have been received and form part of the docket.

The docket on Kandara's death is now in the hands of the Windhoek Magistrate's Court, a Police spokesperson, Chief Inspector Angula Amulungu, said on enquiry yesterday.

It will now be up to the Magistrate to whom the docket is assigned to study the evidence and make a finding on the cause of Kandara's death.

Kandara died from a gunshot wound through the heart outside the Windhoek Police Station on the night of August 24 while he was being escorted by three members of the Police's Serious Crime Unit.

The Police claim he shot himself with a 9mm Beretta pistol.

He was set to be locked up in the cells following his arrest on a charge of fraud some four hours earlier.

The shooting took place after Police officers had escorted Kandara to his own and a relative's house after his arrest so that he could get a change of clothes and collect medication and bedding before he was locked up.

According to the Police, it is suspected that he got hold of the firearm during this journey and hid it in a blanket when he returned to the Police station.

In the close to two months before his death, Kandara's Avid Investment Corporation, now provisionally liquidated, had been at the centre of a High Court inquiry into a N$30 million investment that the Social Security Commission had placed with Avid in late January.

It was supposed to have been invested for a four-month period.

By the time that the investment had to be repaid to the SSC, Avid failed to deliver the money.

This set in motion a process that has included the High Court provisionally liquidating Avid at the request of the SSC, a Companies Act inquiry to establish what happened to the SSC's money, Kandara's own two-day testimony before the inquiry, his subsequent arrest and then his death.

FORENSICS FINISHED Amulungu also confirmed yesterday that the results of forensic examinations that the Police had asked to be done as part of their investigation have been received back and form part of the docket.

Dr Paul Ludik, Director of the National Forensic Science Institute of Namibia, said yesterday that the last of the exhibits that the Institute was asked to analyse for the Police had been returned to the Police early this week.

Because the matter is still pending before court, Ludik did not want to give any indication of the results of the Institute's investigations.

He confirmed, however, that the work the Police had asked the Institute to do included gunpowder-residue tests.

The Police reported previously that gunpowder-residue tests had been done not only on Kandara, but also on the Police officers who were escorting him when he sustained the deadly gunshot wound.

The purpose of these tests would be to determine whether Kandara or any of the Police officers had fired a gun around the time of his death.

Upon enquiry to the Windhoek Magistrate's Court yesterday, no indication could be given how soon a Magistrate would be assigned the docket to hold an inquest.

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