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Wednesday, September 28, 2005 - Web posted at 6:51:28 GMT No clues yet in decapitation case *WERNER MENGESWITH the head of murder victim Juanitha Mabula remaining missing more than two days after the rest of her body was found near Windhoek's Western Bypass road, detectives were still trying to figure out yesterday how she might have been killed. |
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Mabula was brutally murdered some time during Saturday night or early Sunday morning. "That head is still missing," Warrant Officer James Matengu from the Police's Public Relations and Liaison Division reported on enquiry yesterday. By late yesterday afternoon, detectives investigating the killing of the 21-year-old Mabula had not yet arrested any suspect in connection with her death, Matengu said. Mabula, who hailed from Mariental and has lived in Windhoek for the past few years, was killed and beheaded exactly a week before what would have been her 22nd birthday this coming Sunday. Two men who were seen in her company at a service station shop on the corner of Independence Avenue and Uhland Street in Windhoek on Saturday night have in the meantime contacted the Police, Matengu added. They contacted the Police at Keetmanshoop, where they are staying, and have given written statements to the Police. This was after a picture of them with Mabula, captured on a closed-circuit television recording at the service station shop, was aired on NBC television and published in The Namibian yesterday, Matengu said. The two men are not considered suspects in the case, he indicated. According to them, they knew Mabula and visited the 24-hour shop with her on Saturday night while they were passing through Windhoek on a visit. After that, their ways parted, with Mabula indicating to them that she was on her way to the Chez Ntemba nightclub across the road from the service station, Matengu reported. Where the rest of the night had taken her, before her headless body was dumped close to the Western Bypass near Windhoek's Prosperita area where a passer-by discovered it around 08h00 on Sunday, remained the focus of detectives' investigations yesterday. An autopsy was done on Mabula's remains on Monday morning. According to Matengu, no injuries were found on her body, but with her head still missing, it is not known how that part of her body may have been injured when she was killed, or whether it had been a murder by beheading in the first place. It is also not known yet whether she had been sexually assaulted, Matengu continued. During the post-mortem examination, samples were taken for forensic analysis, but no results are available yet, he said. The Police have asked anyone with information on Mabula's last movements to assist with the investigation of her death. They have also given the assurance that any information that is provided will be treated confidentially. Information can be provided to the nearest Police station, or to Detective Warrant Officer Scott at (cellphone) 081 253 0303, or to Joey Swartz at 081 294 6011 or (061) 218 225. |
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