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Vagina collector’s wife ‘hit’

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Peter Frederiksen
Peter Frederiksen

Police from South Africa and Lesotho are investigating a possible hit on the wife of Danish national Peter Frederiksen, who was found with 21 packets containing women’s severed genital parts in the freezer of his Bloemfontein home.

Two weeks ago, Frederiksen’s wife, Anna Matseliso Molise (28), left the Maseru police station and told City Press she was going to see her lawyer. She said she was afraid someone was following her.

On Tuesday evening, as she was leaving her home in Maseru, she was shot four times in the chest and died the next day at the Tshepong Hospital.

Frederiksen was arrested just more than a month ago for his grim alleged sex crimes.

Molise blew the lid on her husband’s alleged female genital mutilation. She told the police’s child protection unit in Bloemfontein what had happened. Frederiksen had reported her to the authorities, saying she was an unfit mother to their two children, aged two and four.

Molise told the officer how she’d unsuccessfully and repeatedly attempted to report to police that Frederiksen had mutilated her and was storing female genitals in his freezer. No one had bothered to investigate. The Hawks raided his Bloemfontein townhouse last month and found the bags containing the body parts in the freezer.

Molise made a statement that her husband had mutilated her. She was to be the prosecution’s chief witness.

The Hawks are continuing with their investigation. The unit’s head, General Mthandazo Ntlemeza, said he was deeply saddened by Molise’s killing.

“She was a key witness in our case against Frederiksen. We suspected something might happen and we offered her witness protection, but she refused. Despite this setback, we are committed to do all in our power to bring justice to all women who fell victim to the accused.”

Hawks spokesperson Hangwani Mulaudzi added they would be working from Molise’s statement and were investigating if her murder was linked to the case.

“The case itself has been slightly affected, but there have been other cases where victims and witnesses have passed on before they testified, and we relied on their statements. In this case, more women will come forward for the sake of Molise,” he said.

The future of her sons now hangs in the balance. “Her two children are still with [the department of] social development, but we are working on coming up with a strategy on what we will do with them,” said Mulaudzi.

“Their father is behind bars, their grandmother in Lesotho passed away a while ago and now their mother is dead.”

Frederiksen met Molise at the Maseru Sun in 2010 after he and another businessman approached her to ask if she wanted company.

He wooed her and offered her a job at the gun shop he had opened in Maseru. He has another one in Bloemfontein.

In her statement to the police, Molise said their relationship moved quickly and Frederiksen asked her to move into his Bloemfontein home – where he allegedly drugged and mutilated her.

In 2011, Molise gave birth to their first son, and two years later, their second.

One of Frederiksen’s former girlfriends told City Press she wept when she heard the news of Molise’s murder. “I’ve been crying all day. I’m really scared now because I don’t know what will happen to me and the other women.”

She said Frederiksen had planned to write a book about the mutilations he performed.

Police investigators found 10 years’ worth of diaries in his home in which his relationships with several women and genital mutilation procedures were documented.

Frederiksen will appear in the Bloemfontein Magistrates’ Court on November 4

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