“I was afraid of him at that moment because I looked at him as a murderer, and I followed everything he was saying.”
This claim is part of a statement Zimbabwean citizen Caroline Nkata, who is being prosecuted in connection with the death of a girl (9) in Windhoek four and a half years ago, made to a magistrate after her arrest.
Nkata’s statement, which was recorded by magistrate Alweendo Venatius on 28 January 2020, became part of the evidence in her trial in the Windhoek High Court on Tuesday.
In the statement, Nkata (40) told the magistrate her husband, Edward Nkata(41), assaulted Akundaishe Chipomho (9) at their home and threatened to assault her as well when she tried to intervene while he was beating the girl.
She also said the girl died the next day.
After Akundaishe’s death, her husband forced her to accompany him when he went to dump the girl’s body in a rubbish skip in the Rhino Park area of Windhoek North, Nkata recounted.
She followed his instructions because he threatened to assault her, she said.
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