POLICE yesterday reported the arrest of two men in a rape and murder case which shocked residents of Swakopmund’s Tamariskia township when it happened last year.
On Sunday afternoon, Michael Tsowaseb (31) and Kinsley Dauseb (32), both resident at the coastal town, were arrested for the brutal killing of 20-year-old Menisia Owases. Owases’s body was discovered in an open space near the Hermann Gmeiner Technical School on Sunday morning, September 3.Police then reported that she had been assaulted and raped before she died, and it has now emerged that she had been stabbed with a broken bottle and hit on the head with a stone.The two suspects made their first court appearance on Monday, and were not granted bail.They join another suspect in this case, Elton Naubeb, who was arrested earlier.The next court appearance for the three is scheduled for April 24.* A 13-year-old boy was arrested at Okahao after he allegedly raped a 15-year-old mentally disabled girl at a village there on Friday.The boy appeared in the Outapi Magistrates Court on Monday.Owases’s body was discovered in an open space near the Hermann Gmeiner Technical School on Sunday morning, September 3.Police then reported that she had been assaulted and raped before she died, and it has now emerged that she had been stabbed with a broken bottle and hit on the head with a stone.The two suspects made their first court appearance on Monday, and were not granted bail.They join another suspect in this case, Elton Naubeb, who was arrested earlier.The next court appearance for the three is scheduled for April 24.* A 13-year-old boy was arrested at Okahao after he allegedly raped a 15-year-old mentally disabled girl at a village there on Friday.The boy appeared in the Outapi Magistrates Court on Monday.
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