‘B1 Butcher’s’ victim: 52 kg, 1,7 m tall…

A WEEK after a female torso was found in two pieces inside a rubbish bin next to the B1 road between Windhoek and Okahandja, the Namibian Police have still not been able to confirm the presumed murder victim’s identity.

It is still not known who the person is, the Commanding Officer of the Police’s Public Relations and Liaison Division, Chief Inspector Angula Amulungu, said yesterday. However, it can be made public that she was light brown in complexion and that she is estimated to have weighed around 52 kilogrammes and to have been about 1,7 metres tall, Amulungu said.He added that the Police were not yet in a position to confirm that the two pieces of human torso found last Sunday and the two human thighs discovered in a rubbish bin next to the B1 road between Windhoek and Rehoboth on Wednesday last week belonged to the same person.If those body parts came from the same person, it would mean that the lower parts of her legs, her arms, hands and head remain missing at this stage.Both the two pieces of torso, which were found at a lay-by next to the B1 road some 42 kilometres north of Windhoek, and the two thighs, found at a lay-by next to the B1 road some 25 km north of Rehoboth, appeared to have been chilled in a fridge or freezer before being dumped.The place where the legs were found is situated about 14,5 km south of the spot where the severed head of a murdered Windhoek resident, Juanita Mabula, was found lying next to the B1 road on October 24 2005.Mabula’s headless, naked body had been discovered lying next to the Western Bypass road section of the B1, near the Windhoek Country Club Resort, on September 25 2005.Mabula (21) was the second young woman whose naked remains were found lying next to the Western Bypass road in a space of five weeks.The first to be found was the 22-year-old Melanie Janse, whose body was discovered lying next to the Western Bypass near the Van Eck Power station on August 20 2005.No one has been arrested yet for the death of either Mabula or Janse.A reward of N$20 000 for information leading to the arrest of the person responsible for killing either of them remains on offer.On Monday last week the Police also offered a reward of N$60 000 for anyone providing information that would lead to the arrest of the person responsible for the presumed murder of the woman whose torso was found last Sunday.The Police have neither confirmed nor ruled out the possibility that the deaths of these three women might be linked, or might also be connected to the death of a fourth young woman, Viola Swartbooi (18), who was found buried naked in a shallow grave at Rehoboth on December 28 2005.She had gone missing from her home in Windhoek about 12 days earlier.The Police are asking anyone with information on these murders to contact Chief Inspector Unandapo at telephone (061) 209 4302 or cellphone 081 124 0521, or Deputy Commissioner Visser at (061) 209 4221 or cellphone 081 128 2380, or Warrant Officer Geoffrey Scott at 081 253 0303, or Sergeant Willem Dax at 081 245 9199.However, it can be made public that she was light brown in complexion and that she is estimated to have weighed around 52 kilogrammes and to have been about 1,7 metres tall, Amulungu said. He added that the Police were not yet in a position to confirm that the two pieces of human torso found last Sunday and the two human thighs discovered in a rubbish bin next to the B1 road between Windhoek and Rehoboth on Wednesday last week belonged to the same person. If those body parts came from the same person, it would mean that the lower parts of her legs, her arms, hands and head remain missing at this stage.Both the two pieces of torso, which were found at a lay-by next to the B1 road some 42 kilometres north of Windhoek, and the two thighs, found at a lay-by next to the B1 road some 25 km north of Rehoboth, appeared to have been chilled in a fridge or freezer before being dumped. The place where the legs were found is situated about 14,5 km south of the spot where the severed head of a murdered Windhoek resident, Juanita Mabula, was found lying next to the B1 road on October 24 2005.Mabula’s headless, naked body had been discovered lying next to the Western Bypass road section of the B1, near the Windhoek Country Club Resort, on September 25 2005.Mabula (21) was the second young woman whose naked remains were found lying next to the Western Bypass road in a space of five weeks.The first to be found was the 22-year-old Melanie Janse, whose body was discovered lying next to the Western Bypass near the Van Eck Power station on August 20 2005.No one has been arrested yet for the death of either Mabula or Janse.A reward of N$20 000 for information leading to the arrest of the person responsible for killing either of them remains on offer.On Monday last week the Police also offered a reward of N$60 000 for anyone providing information that would lead to the arrest of the person responsible for the presumed murder of the woman whose torso was found last Sunday.The Police have neither confirmed nor ruled out the possibility that the deaths of these three women might be linked, or might also be connected to the death of a fourth young woman, Viola Swartbooi (18), who was found buried naked in a shallow grave at Rehoboth on December 28 2005.She had gone missing from her home in Windhoek about 12 days earlier.The Police are asking anyone with information on these murders to contact Chief Inspector Unandapo at telephone (061) 209 4302 or cellphone 081 124 0521, or Deputy Commissioner Visser at (061) 209 4221 or cellphone 081 128 2380, or Warrant Officer Geoffrey Scott at 081 253 0303, or Sergeant Willem Dax at 081 245 9199.