THE man arrested last month by police who believed him to be a suspect in the brutal murder of a homeless opposite Jameson Park, has been released.
The foreign national who is approximately 35 years old ands believed to be a companion of the homeless woman, was found at Durban Station last month where he was arrested.
According to Lieutenant PN Naidoo, Berea police Communications Officer, the suspect was arrested and questioned by detectives. They had no alternative but to release him because his fingerprints were not a match. “We are still awaiting a forensic report and the man will be re-arrested if he is a match,” Naidoo said.
The woman described as “totally harmless” by local residents and business owners in the area to whom she had become a familiar sight, was hit on the head with a blunt object and her genitalia mutilated with the neck of a broken bottle. Her body was discovered by police and sent ripples of shock through the Musgrave and Morningside community who erected a cross in her memory at the site.
