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Father of missing boy identifies son's clothes
15 Nov 2011 at 12:05hrs | Views
Given Flint Matapure, the 3-year-old boy who went missing at the Harare Agricultural Show on the 22nd of August 2011
The father of missing Given Flint Matapure, Owen, says he has identified some clothes which he says belonged to his son.
Owen Matapure, father to Flint, has positively identified a belt and trousers that were found at the Harare Agricultural Show grounds on Monday, as his son's.
According to Zbc News Given's parents are at the Milton Park Police Station in Harare for some identification procedures.
The remains of a boy child were discovered within the Harare Agricultural Show grounds near the City Sports Centre on Monday by a Zimbabwe Agricultural Society employee.
Also found at the scene was a pair of trousers, a belt, one shoe, stockings and sun glasses.
Officers from the CID homicide department, pathologists and forensic scientists visited the area early this Monday morning and collected the remains for tests.
It is still not clear whether the boy was murdered at the scene or the remains were brought there later. However, the scene where the remains were discovered is a stone's throw away from the City Sports Centre, raising questions how the body could have decomposed there without people detecting it.
Police have said they will work with parents who lost their children in order to positively identify the remains.
Owen Matapure, father to Flint, has positively identified a belt and trousers that were found at the Harare Agricultural Show grounds on Monday, as his son's.
According to Zbc News Given's parents are at the Milton Park Police Station in Harare for some identification procedures.
The remains of a boy child were discovered within the Harare Agricultural Show grounds near the City Sports Centre on Monday by a Zimbabwe Agricultural Society employee.
Also found at the scene was a pair of trousers, a belt, one shoe, stockings and sun glasses.
Officers from the CID homicide department, pathologists and forensic scientists visited the area early this Monday morning and collected the remains for tests.
It is still not clear whether the boy was murdered at the scene or the remains were brought there later. However, the scene where the remains were discovered is a stone's throw away from the City Sports Centre, raising questions how the body could have decomposed there without people detecting it.
Police have said they will work with parents who lost their children in order to positively identify the remains.
Source - Zbc
