Lenon Mangwiro a 29-year-old man in Zimbabwe is being charged for murdering his wife before burying the body in a disused toilet pit at his house.
He allegedly wrapped the victim’s body in a blanket and placed it in a toilet pit before covering it with layers of maize cobs on top.
Neighbours who found the body a four weeks later alerted authorities who then arrested the suspect.
When he appeared before a Zimbabwean Magistrate Court, Mangwiro was advised to apply for bail at the High Court because he faces a Third Schedule Offence.
According to state papers, Mangwiro’s wife was reported missing to the police on May 22 last year by her mother Letwin Chinyan’anya.
During the court hearing, it was stated ‘Rosemary Chakurira’s body was discovered in a shallow, disused toilet pit within Mangwiro’s compound.’
“It was alleged that the recovered body was wrapped in a blanket and tied with wire on the neck, legs and waist.
“Efforts were made to locate Mangwiro, but he was nowhere to be found until he was arrested on March 4 in Norton.”
police interrogators learnt that Mangwiro, claimed to have hit Chakurira with a log that had nails, twice on the head, the court heard.
The reason for the murder was because there had been a dispute over extra-marital affairs between him and his now deceased wife according to the suspect
A post-mortem carried out at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals concluded that death was caused by vital trauma and skull fracture consistent with a heavy sharp object being used.