A middle aged man was whisked away to Sbrana Psychiatric Hospital in Lobatse after he went on a violent streak in Kazungula on Saturday.
The man currently under medical observation at the facility, injured one man and broke down doors and windows in four homesteads in New Stands ward.
According to Assistant Superintendent Moetapele Ramotsweta, the police responded to a distress call at around 9am on Saturday. “When they got there, they were told a man had just assaulted someone and vanished into thin air. The victim was hit on the head. Initially we thought it was one of the common assault cases,” said Ramotsweta.
However, in the late early hours of Sunday morning, Ramotsweta said they were once again called to the scene where the same man was causing more havoc. “It was around 4am, when he returned and started vandalising property,” he said.
According to Ramotsweta, the man who eluded them the previous day had now upped the ante, breaking windows and doors at will. “Four houses from four different yards were affected. Fortunately, no one was injured in the process,” he said.
Ramotsweta further told The Voice Online that the aggressor had not yet been charged, as the police await the psychiatric report from Lobatse.
However an eye witness close to the man he simply calls ‘Sbale’ said the man acted out of character because he was hurt by love. “He completely lost his bearings,” he said.
The eye witness said the usually calm man had been living in Kazungula for the past two months to be close to the mother of his child. “Before the Saturday episode, he was just fine,” he said and added: “O findile out, (he has found out about baby mama’s love affair).”
“It was temporary insanity, I believe he’ll be fine, and hopefully he’ll be able to move on,” he said.
