Shock and hemorrhage caused death - Pathologist

FRANCISTOWN: Government forensic pathologist, Dr Varaprasad Patnaik has said that a man who died in 2005 might have been hit at least twice on the head while seated.

He said at the murder trial of Kelaile Pelogaitse that the deceased Mompoloki Ramokate died from shock and hemorrhage after suffering head blows. Pelogaitse is facing a single count of murdering Ramokate in 2005 using a walking stick.

Patnaik said the brain of the deceased was swollen and had some blood droplets in it. "Hemorrhage that I saw on the brain was caused by rupture of the blood vessels that supplies the blood to and from the brain.

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