A former Scorpions advocate was bitten, assaulted, tied up with duct tape and two attempts were made to rape her, the Pretoria Regional Court heard on Wednesday.
The grandson of an employee at the Namibian high commission is accused in the case.
A police captain testified that he found semen on the ground outside the woman’s bathroom window at a townhouse complex in Pretoria the morning after the attack, saying it appeared some one had masturbated while watching the victim.
The semen later proved to be that of the accused, Ishmael Ashipembe.
He earlier pleaded not guilty to 67 charges, including two attempted rape charges and robbery.
Captain Weun Mostert said he was called to the scene on the morning of October 13 2004. When he saw the victim, she was traumatised. There was a bite wound on her forehead, chafe marks on her face and wrists and blood around her nose.
”She told me she had been asleep when a movement on her bed woke her. Someone ordered her to turn on her stomach, while making movements on top of her. She could feel he had a full erection. She resisted both times the person tried to rape her,” Mostert said.
She described her attacker, and said some items had gone missing from her home over a time.
Another police officer told the captain there was no sign of forced entry, and that the attacker might live in the same complex.
It appeared the attacker left the complainant’s home through her bathroom window on the upper floor, into a shaft with a platform connecting it to another unit, belonging to Ashipembe’s grandmother.
The police knocked on the door of that unit and asked the accused to accompany them to their vehicle where Mostert’s file was, as he wanted to record Ashipembe’s details.
On their way to the vehicle the victim gestured to Mostert from her balcony, indicating that her neighbour was her attacker.
The police turned around and went to search Ashipembe’s bedroom.
They found cheques belonging to the complainant made out to the accused, her camera that had gone missing earlier and her bank cards.
The trial was postponed to October. — Sapa