A British High Commission consular officer, who was arrested for assaulting her husband, is reported to have fled the country for fear of appearing before court.
But Lusaka police division commanding officer Greenwell Ng’uni said the police were only waiting for instructions from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and would summon her at an appropriate time.
Karen Michelle van Boxtel, a British national resident in Zambia, was arrested together with her alleged boyfriend and her brother Kevin van Boxtel for assaulting her husband, Carl Frieslaar a month ago.
Mr Frieslaar, who is the managing director of Asbestos Roofing, said yesterday that his wife, Karen had disappeared with their three children and that he had not seen or heard from her since September 10.
He said the surety and her accomplices had also disappeared in suspicious circumstances, despite a court order giving him custody of the children.
According to Mr Frieslaar, the Hummer that was being driven by his wife, had its registration number changed from BAD 455 to ABV 4088.
He was worried about his children especially that the High Court had ruled that he should maintain them.
According to an order by Judge Patrick Matibini, Mr Frieslaar should take custody of the children with monitoring from the social welfare department.
Judge Matibini said Ms van Boxtel should not harass, assault or threaten Mr Frieslaar and should not have contact with the children unless under supervision.
He also said the children should not leave Zambia without both parties signing a consent order that could be sanctioned by the court in the interest of the children.
And Vanguard Private Investigations managing director James Kasamanda, who was engaged to investigate the alleged affair between Ms van Boxtel and a Zimbabwean white farmer, said he had alerted the police on the planned disappearance of the suspects.
Captain Kasamanda said when he alerted the police that the suspects and sureties were planning to run away, nothing was done despite Ms Boxtel being under police guard.
He said even when the suspects were leaving the country for South Africa, he informed the police but they still did not do anything.
He said he trailed the suspects and the sureties and he saw them board a Zambezi Airlines plane.
Mr Ng’uni said both Mr Frieslaar and Ms van Boxtel had reported different assault cases and that the police had handed over the dockets to the DPP and were only waiting for further instructions.
He said the police were not aware that Ms van Boxtel had fled the country but she would be summoned when instructions had been passed on to his office.
“We will summon her at the police whether she has gone out of the country or not,” he said.
[ Times of Zambia ]
Zambian police!! Another Atowala/Shansonga scandal. Oh my foot.
How will they summon the people that have fled? Britain and Zambia has no extradiction treaty, so how will the POLICE get the suspects? Typical ZED POLICE chalade or circus with Kabonde the Ring Master.
Lets hear all those MMD F.ools ask for extradition.
The police force has no power.
Customs has no powers.
Airports are like bus stations.
hehehehe
I guess she is also a PF Kaponya.. Not so Senior Citizen?
When this woman attached her husband with her boy friend people onthis site turned on the victim and called him names just because he is a coloured man does not make him a bad person, if that woman has fled to the UK then forget there is nothing that can be done and for the Zambian police i think they are the most hopeless force in the world if the allowed this person to run away they must be sued at all costs.
Ha ha ha another bana GBM.Mrs GBM also broke her husbands spin.It is women against men i think i will start nyamulaling nsimbi kuti bakulopola,women of today are getting more sophiscated.
iwe ka london lol who has called him names because he is a coloured man,
The article says they have fled to S.A., so why are people referring to the UK extradiction treaty????8-|/:)
#8 She must have transitted via SA, simple thinking please!!!!!
Can some one enlighten this Village Boy on the law regarding assault in Zambia. In the Comboni when one is accused of assault and the matter is reported to the Police they immediately send you a call out note or they come for you at 02, there is nothing like waiting “instructions from the Director of Public Prosecutions”, the DPP is not consulted about assault cases in the Comboni, whats the difference kanshi?
Husband battering, anyone? I am waiting for rupiya banda to call on his attack dogs to condemn this woman in the same manner he called on them to protest GBM’s assault on his wife. Oh, sorry, I forgot Mr. van Boxtel is not PF or UPND or FDD.
IN ZED HAVE MONEY YOU CAN PISS ON EVERYONE AND RUN AWAY.
money talks,bullshit walks.thats zambia now…..
No.7 have respect were do you think the sperm that produced you came from?
Heading !! Was the court in session when she fled ?
RB said that we can not use foreign laws to fight bad vices in Zambia. Similarly that guy is gone… we can not bring him back becasue Britain will not recognise our laws and will trow the case out. What goes around comes around.
The “diplomat” has been convicted for drunk driving in the U.K. on a Zambian licence 20 years ago.
She has a lot of skeletons in her closet!
How she got a position at the British High commission with her past is unbelievable!
This entire report is a bullshit story. Husband assaulted the wife and the boyfriend stepped in and beat 10 different shades of blue out of the husband – the 2 had been separated for a few months. The husband gave his kids to the wife and paid her no maintenance for over a year and a half. This case is ongoing and now Mr Van Boxstel stands a chance of going to prison for something he wasnt involved in. Its the system thats the problem in Zambia. Pay the right people and you will win in court. Oh one more thing, Mr Frieslaar has been charged with killing 4 people in a motor car accident – he was drunk out of his mind at 3 o clock in the morning doing a crazy speed and killed 4 innocent people. Lets see what his money can buy now .#@&%!
Wakey wakey!