Head and legs found

A HUMAN head, two lower legs and two partly mutilated feet were discovered on farmland close to the road between Windhoek and the Hosea Kutako International Airport yesterday.

The B1 Butcher – the person thought to have been responsible for killing and dismembering a woman whose torso was found discarded in a rubbish bin next to the B1 road between Windhoek and Rehoboth three and a half weeks ago – may be expanding his territory, the discovery of more human body parts lying next to one of the main roads leading out of Windhoek may indicate. Workers employed at farm Voigtland some 35 kilometres east of Windhoek made the grisly discovery of human body parts lying in the veld at around noon yesterday, according to the Police’s Public Relations and Liaison Division.Until scientific proof has been obtained, the Police will not be in a position to say if there is a connection between yesterday’s find of body parts and the discovery of a human torso in a rubbish bin at a lay-by next to the B1 road some 42 kilometres north of Windhoek on June 17, the Commanding Officer of the Division, Chief Inspector Angula Amulungu, said late yesterday.According to Amulungu, workers at Voigtland were working on a fence on a portion of the farm between the Neudamm Agricultural College and the B6 road’s turn-off to Dordabis when the head, feet and lower legs were found.”One worker who was a distance from others discovered a head and he alerted others to come and see his findings.While looking around they discovered a lower leg,” Amulungu said in a statement issued late in the afternoon.The workers notified the farm owner, who contacted the Police at Hosea Kutako International Airport.A further search in a radius of 500 metres from the first finds led to another lower leg and two feet being discovered, Amulungu announced.The three middle toes of each foot had been cut off.If these body parts belonged to the same woman whose torso was found three and a half weeks ago, it appears that they also had been preserved in a cooling facility before being discarded.The torso and thighs are suspected to have been kept in a fridge or freezer before being left where they were later found.Stated Amulungu about yesterday’s discovery: “Though it cannot be determined as to how long these parts have been on the scene they appear not to have reached a decomposing stage because the face is still recognizable.However, one disturbing factor is that both feet’s three middle toes are cut off.”The body parts have been taken to the Police Mortuary in Windhoek.Amulungu appealed to members of the public who have reported people missing to contact the mortuary in an effort to establish if the newly discovered body parts belonged to someone they had reported missing.The mortuary can be telephoned at (061) 209 4235.The discovery of the torso on June 17 was followed three days later by another macabre find at a lay-by next to the B1 road.On June 20, two human upper legs were found in a rubbish bin next to the Windhoek-Rehoboth road some 25 km north of Rehoboth.Those body parts were discovered some 14,5 km from the spot where the severed head of Windhoek resident Juanita Mabula had been found lying next to the B1 road on October 24 2005.Mabula’s headless body was found lying naked next to the Western Bypass section of the B1 road on September 25 2005, about a week before what would have been her 22nd birthday.Almost a month earlier, on August 20 2005, the naked body of another young woman, the 22-year-old Melanie Janse, had been found lying next to another section of Western Bypass near the Van Eck Power Station.A possible connection between the deaths of these women has neither been ruled out nor confirmed yet by the Police.On Monday last week, the Inspector General of the Namibian Police, Lieutenant General Sebastian Ndeitunga, told the media that the Police were 99 per cent certain that the torso and the two thighs belonged to the same person, but that scientific examinations to confirm this were also still continuing.Workers employed at farm Voigtland some 35 kilometres east of Windhoek made the grisly discovery of human body parts lying in the veld at around noon yesterday, according to the Police’s Public Relations and Liaison Division.Until scientific proof has been obtained, the Police will not be in a position to say if there is a connection between yesterday’s find of body parts and the discovery of a human torso in a rubbish bin at a lay-by next to the B1 road some 42 kilometres north of Windhoek on June 17, the Commanding Officer of the Division, Chief Inspector Angula Amulungu, said late yesterday.According to Amulungu, workers at Voigtland were working on a fence on a portion of the farm between the Neudamm Agricultural College and the B6 road’s turn-off to Dordabis when the head, feet and lower legs were found.”One worker who was a distance from others discovered a head and he alerted others to come and see his findings.While looking around they discovered a lower leg,” Amulungu said in a statement issued late in the afternoon. The workers notified the farm owner, who contacted the Police at Hosea Kutako International Airport.A further search in a radius of 500 metres from the first finds led to another lower leg and two feet being discovered, Amulungu announced.The three middle toes of each foot had been cut off.If these body parts belonged to the same woman whose torso was found three and a half weeks ago, it appears that they also had been preserved in a cooling facility before being discarded.The torso and thighs are suspected to have been kept in a fridge or freezer before being left where they were later found.Stated Amulungu about yesterday’s discovery: “Though it cannot be determined as to how long these parts have been on the scene they appear not to have reached a decomposing stage because the face is still recognizable.However, one disturbing factor is that both feet’s three middle toes are cut off.”The body parts have been taken to the Police Mortuary in Windhoek.Amulungu appealed to members of the public who have reported people missing to contact the mortuary in an effort to establish if the newly discovered body parts belonged to someone they had reported missing.The mortuary can be telephoned at (061) 209 4235.The discovery of the torso on June 17 was followed three days later by another macabre find at a lay-by next to the B1 road.On June 20, two human upper legs were found in a rubbish bin next to the Windhoek-Rehoboth road some 25 km north of Rehoboth.Those body parts were discovered some 14,5 km from the spot where the severed head of Windhoek resident Juanita Mabula had been found lying next to the B1 road on October 24 2005.Mabula’s headless body was found lying naked next to the Western Bypass section of the B1 road on September 25 2005, about a week before what would have been her 22nd birthday.Almost a month earlier, on August 20 2005, the naked body of another young woman, the 22-year-old Melanie Janse, had been found lying next to another section of Western Bypass near the Van Eck Power Station.A possible connection between the deaths of these women has neither been ruled out nor confirmed yet by the Police.On Monday last week, the Inspector General of the Namibian Police, Lieutenant General Sebastian Ndeitunga, told the media that the Police were 99 per cent certain that the torso and the two thighs belonged to the same person, but that scientific examinations to confirm this were also still continuing.