Consular nabbed over hubby assaultBy Times ReporterPOLICE in Lusaka have picked up a consular at the British High Commission for assault after she helped her alleged boyfriend to beat up her husband who found them kissing in the early hours of Saturday. Karen Michelle van Boxtel, a consular and nationality officer, was arrested at the weekend after she assaulted her husband, Carl Fraisera, who is Asbestos Roofing managing director.Police officers at Chawama Police Station where Van Boxtel is detained said they were holding her in connection with the assault that also involved other unknown people.Mr Fraisera, who was admitted to Care for Business Hospital in Lusaka, said yesterday that on Saturday, around 02:00 hours, he was informed that his wife was at Lusaka South Country Club in the company of another man.He went to the club and found his wife being kissed by another man he did not know and when he approached the man and asked him why he was kissing his wife, he started beating him."The man punched me and shortly others including my wife joined in beating me up and hit me with bottles and shoes until I got unconscious," he said. Mr Fraisera said he sustained three broken teeth, bruises and a deep cut on the forehead.He said he did not know the man who was kissing his wife except that he was a Zimbabwean white farmer believed to be from Mazabuka.Some paramedical officials from Lusaka South Club later picked him and rushed him to the hospital where he had been admitted since Saturday. Mr Fraisera said his wife had continued going to the same club and had not even bothered to phone or visit him at the hospital. Vanguard Private Investigations managing director, James Kasamanda said he was engaged to trail the woman for the last two months and discovered that she patronised Lusaka South Club in the company of other men.Captain Kasamanda said the woman usually drove a Hummer motor vehicle, registration number BAD 455, which was bought by her husband. Van Boxtel is a British national resident in Zambia and was employed locally by the British High Commission.
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