Decorated police officer bitten to death in bizarre cell attack
A prisoner grabbed the policewoman by her hair and banged her head several times against the wall.
Prison cell.
A senior police officer was allegedly attacked by a woman awaiting trial during a routine cell visit in Mpumalanga, Middelburg Observer reports.
It is alleged the police officer went into the cells as per the procedure to provide medication and clothes to one of the suspects, who is suspected to be mentally ill.
The lieutenant-colonel went to wake the detainee and was suddenly faced with a sudden assault. The suspect jumped on the police officer, grabbed her by her hair and banged her head several times against the wall.
The officer was also bitten in the neck and fellow officers rushed to her assistance. She was, however, fatally wounded and died of severe blood loss.
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The suspect had been previously arrested for several cases, including an assault on a police officer and malicious damage to property.
It also came forth that some time ago, the same suspect attacked police officials while they were trying to apprehend her brother on an assault case at their home. As a result, she had appeared at Kwamhlanga Magistrates’ Court on August 31 for two counts of malicious damage to property, assault, defeating the ends of justice, resisting arrest and her cases were postponed to September 7.
Apart from the initial charges, the captive now also faces a charge of murder of a police officer.
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– Caxton News Service
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