Gender-Based Violence – Windhoek Observer

Niël TerbLanché Pieter van der Westhuizen, 67, a Swakopmund-based psychiatrist was arrested at the start of this week on Gender-Based Violence charges after he viciously attacked his wife in the Ocean View home on Sunday. Van der Westhuizen rose to infamy during a trial where he stood accused of raping one of his female patients on the premises of his practice on 7 November 2015 while she was heavily sedated with psychotropic drugs. Besides three counts of rape, Van der Westhuizen also faced an attempted murder charge with the alternative charge of using drugs to overpower a woman so that…