12-year-old finds mum’s murdered body

A TWELVE-year-old girl on Tuesday discovered her dead mother’s body lying on the kitchen floor in Walvis Bay when she returned home from school.

The girl said she noticed something was wrong when she arrived home and saw her mother’s shoes lying in the kitchen doorway. When she went to investigate, she saw her mother lying in a pool of blood and an axe next to her.Police spokesperson Warrant Officer James Matengu said yesterday, from Nampol Headquarters in Windhoek, that no arrest had been made in the case and he could not confirm whether any suspect(s) had so far been identified.The victim, Gerda van Heerden (44), seemed to have been overpowered in her home in Khaxab street some time between 10h00 and 12h00 on Tuesday.Signs at the crime scene suggest that the woman had put up a desperate but futile fight for her life.When she went to investigate, she saw her mother lying in a pool of blood and an axe next to her.Police spokesperson Warrant Officer James Matengu said yesterday, from Nampol Headquarters in Windhoek, that no arrest had been made in the case and he could not confirm whether any suspect(s) had so far been identified.The victim, Gerda van Heerden (44), seemed to have been overpowered in her home in Khaxab street some time between 10h00 and 12h00 on Tuesday.Signs at the crime scene suggest that the woman had put up a desperate but futile fight for her life.