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Xenophobia victim finds wife engaged, hangs self
01 May 2015 at 12:24hrs | Views
A man from Mucheke High Density Suburb in Masvingo hanged himself at his in-laws' homestead after he returned from South Africa to find his wife madly in love with another man from the neighbourhood and unprepared to change her mind.
Stephen Mbirikira (45) who allegedly returned to Zimbabwe on Saturday in a bid to escape xenophobic attacks in South Africa was found hanging from a tree on Wednesday morning.
Police Spokesperson Assistant Inspector Kudakwashe Dhewa confirmed the incident to Masvingo Mirror.
The publication said the whole neighbourhood was brought to a standstill as residents and people on their way to work trouped to the house along Zaka Street to get a glimpse of Mbirikira who used a piece of wire to hang himself.
Mbirikira was found hanging from a tree with a wire around his neck and there were blood stains on the branches of the tree he hung from. This led Mbirikira's relatives to suspect that there was foul play.
Sources said Mbirikira who had three wives was working in South Africa. He arrived back on Saturday and went to the house where he lodged together with his third wife Tendai Murinye. There were disagreements as Murinye was allegedly no longer interested in the relationship since she was allegedly in love with another man.
The two are said to have fought resulting in Tendai approaching the Police for their intervention. Police officers are said to have counselled them and ordered them to go back home but the problems continued until Tendai left the lodgings for her parents' home which is in the same neighbourhood.
Mbirikira is said to have come to apologise to Murinye's parents on the night that he hung himself for being violent to their daughter. He asked Murinye to accompany her as he left but she refused.
He allegedly went away and came back later and knocked on Murinye's window and said goodbye and Murinye thought he probably was in the yard all along and was finally going away.
That was the last she saw of him.
The Murinye family however, said Mbirikira was not their son-in-law. They said he only co-habitated with their daughter and they had one child together.
"When we were alerted of the tragic event in the morning, we were asleep; we woke up to find this person hanging from the tree. Yesterday at around 9pm he came here and asked for forgiveness for assaulting our daughter many times but we told him that we could not talk to him because he hadn't paid a single cent for our daughter," said Murinye's mother.
Stephen Mbirikira (45) who allegedly returned to Zimbabwe on Saturday in a bid to escape xenophobic attacks in South Africa was found hanging from a tree on Wednesday morning.
Police Spokesperson Assistant Inspector Kudakwashe Dhewa confirmed the incident to Masvingo Mirror.
The publication said the whole neighbourhood was brought to a standstill as residents and people on their way to work trouped to the house along Zaka Street to get a glimpse of Mbirikira who used a piece of wire to hang himself.
Mbirikira was found hanging from a tree with a wire around his neck and there were blood stains on the branches of the tree he hung from. This led Mbirikira's relatives to suspect that there was foul play.
Sources said Mbirikira who had three wives was working in South Africa. He arrived back on Saturday and went to the house where he lodged together with his third wife Tendai Murinye. There were disagreements as Murinye was allegedly no longer interested in the relationship since she was allegedly in love with another man.
The two are said to have fought resulting in Tendai approaching the Police for their intervention. Police officers are said to have counselled them and ordered them to go back home but the problems continued until Tendai left the lodgings for her parents' home which is in the same neighbourhood.
Mbirikira is said to have come to apologise to Murinye's parents on the night that he hung himself for being violent to their daughter. He asked Murinye to accompany her as he left but she refused.
He allegedly went away and came back later and knocked on Murinye's window and said goodbye and Murinye thought he probably was in the yard all along and was finally going away.
That was the last she saw of him.
The Murinye family however, said Mbirikira was not their son-in-law. They said he only co-habitated with their daughter and they had one child together.
"When we were alerted of the tragic event in the morning, we were asleep; we woke up to find this person hanging from the tree. Yesterday at around 9pm he came here and asked for forgiveness for assaulting our daughter many times but we told him that we could not talk to him because he hadn't paid a single cent for our daughter," said Murinye's mother.
Source - Masvingo Mirror
