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Original Post Date: 2011-04-25 Time: 08:53:20 Posted By: News Poster
By Werner Menges
HUMAN DNA found on the body of murdered Keetmanshoop teacher Magda Maas matches the DNA of one of the two men accused of robbing, raping and killing Maas in her house in November 2007, according to testimony heard in the High Court in Windhoek this week.
After an almost ten-month-long break in the trial of Keetmanshoop residents Albertus Cloete (36) and Quinton Pieters (29), their case was back before Judge Alfred Siboleka this week.
The two men have pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, rape and robbery with aggravating circumstances.
They are being prosecuted in connection with the death of the 55-year-old Magda Maas, who was an advisory teacher with the Ministry of Education at Keetmanshoop, almost three and a half years ago.
Maas was found dead in her house at Keetmanshoop on the morning of November 3 2007. She was found lying semi-naked in a corridor next to her kitchen. A hammer, which may have been the weapon that was used to attack her, lay next to Maas’s head.
It was later established during an autopsy that Maas had died from a head injury as well as strangulation.
Cloete and Pieters were both arrested on November 3 2007, after goods that had allegedly been stolen from Maas’s house were found in their possession.
The alleged stolen items included a hi-fi music system and a cellphone that was found with Pieters, and prescription glasses that Cloete was found wearing.
Testifying before Judge Siboleka on Tuesday, a forensic DNA analyst from the British Columbia Institute of Technology in Canada, Steen Hartsen, told the court that he analysed samples that had been received from Namibia in January this year.
According to other evidence placed before the court, the samples sent to Canada included blood samples from Cloete, Pieters and Maas, and samples that were collected during the autopsy on Maas.
Hartsen testified that a DNA profile that he obtained from one of the samples matched a DNA profile that he obtained from a sample taken from Maas’s private parts. The matching sample came from Pieters.
Hartsen said this was “a significant match”.
He added that using an African-American database of DNA profiles to calculate the frequency that this DNA profile can be expected to occur, he concluded that there was a chance of one in 80 000 that another, randomly selected person, would have the same profile.
Given the size of the Namibian population, that could mean that there may be up to 20 people with that DNA profile in Namibia, Hartsen said.
He said the results of his analysis provide a probability that the person whose DNA profile matched the one that was analysed, had left some DNA at the scene where Maas was murdered.
So far during their trial Cloete and Pieters have raised a robbery as a defence to the charges they are facing.
The two men’s defence lawyer, Monty Karuaihe, has told witnesses that the alleged stolen goods found with his two clients had come into their possession when they robbed “a group of young boys” near someone’s house at Keetmanshoop.
The trial is continuing.
State advocate Innocentia Nyoni is prosecuting.
Cloete and Pieters are remaining in custody.
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Original date published: 21 April 2011
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201104250361.html?viewall=1