Infanticide case postponed to February

The police at Swakopmund are still investigating the murder case against 32-year-old Zenobia Seas, who allegedly killed her daughter in September this year.

Seas allegedly suffocated her two-year-old daughter with a piece of cloth along the Henties Bay-Terrace Bay gravel road.

Seas appeared for the second time before Magistrate Surita Savage at Henties Bay yesterday.

She was remanded in custody.

“We are still waiting for information on investigations from the scene of crime. There is also a possibility for forensic investigations,” prosecutor Dalon Quickfall told the court.

Defence lawyer Mpokiseng Dube said they are preparing for a bail hearing to be conducted on a date yet to be announced.

When Seas made her first court appearance in Swakopmund in September, she was refused bail because of the seriousness of the case.

Seas, an employee at Husab Uranium Mine in Swakopmund, allegedly sent a text message to her daughter''s father, informing him she had killed the girl.

She is said to have put firewood under her car in an attempt to burn herself and the child''s body inside the car.

He case was postponed to 13 February 2017.