Woman pours hot cooking oil over sleeping hubby

A 28-year-old man is lucky to be alive after his wife poured simmering cooking oil on him while he was fast asleep following a domestic dispute.

The State case was that on June 24 this year at around 2200 hours, Freddy Chimunhu and Emma Nikasa (35) of Mahoho Farm, Kadoma, had a heated exchange over missing $150 which had allegedly been taken by Chimunhu without her consent.

It was heard the complainant later retired to bed without the issue being resolved. The accused, in a fit of rage, took a pot and boiled cooking oil which she poured on her unsuspecting husband who was in a deep slumber causing 32 degree burns on his face, chest, right thigh and on his manhood.

She later went on the rampage and torched household property that included a solar panel, inverter, battery, bed set and a bicycle.

Chimunhu shocked the court when he begged the magistrate to pardon his wife, a mother of five minor children, for the dastardly acts she had committed against him.