A night of romance and sex with a gay lover went terribly wrong for one Stephanus Holtzhausen who is now helping the police with death incident investigations.
It is alleged that Holtzhausen, a businessman from Lobatse had booked accommodation at an upmarket CBD Hotel to spend a night with Thabang Gobonwang only for Gobonwang to wind up dead on the couch in the morning.
According to a report filed by the businessman with the police, Gobonwang arrived at around 1900 hours at the hotel room and he complained that he was not feeling well and failed to eat dinner.
The two however proceeded to have sexual intercourse at around 0130 hours and the deceased had a bath thereafter.
Holtzhausen further reported that Gobonwang said he was tired and went to sleep in the living room while he slept in the bedroom.
He said in the morning at around 730hrs, he tried to wake him up but Gobonwang appeared to be sleeping deeply.
However he tried to wake him up again at around 0900 hours and that is when he noticed that there was no sign of life.
Borakanelo Police Station Commander Superintendent Amos Solomon confirmed the incident. He said according to the reporter who was with the deceased, the hotel management was notified immediately after suspecting that his friend was dead. Solomon said a medical emergency assist team and the police were called to the scene.
“Our investigating team attended to the incident and the man was taken to Extension 2 clinic where he was certified dead by a Medical Doctor. His dead body is lying at Pule mortuary awaiting post mortem. For now we cannot rule out suspensions of foul play and the inquest docket has been opened. The family of the deceased were informed and waiting for us to complete the investigations before we can hand over the body for burial,” said Solomon
