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Woman Stabbed Husband, Burns Body To Cover Crime

A woman from Bulawayo reportedly stabbed her husband twice on the chest with a knife, doused the body with paraffin and burnt it beyond recognition to cover the crime.

Woman Stabbed Husband, Burns Body To Cover Crime

23 year old Lakela Sweswe allegedly killed Anifa Mlauzi on June 8 at their home in Buena Vista suburb just after Rio hotel following a fight in which he accused her of infidelity. She told investigators that she stayed with the body for two days before setting it on fire.

Lakela reportedly went to live with her in-laws in Kensington suburb for close to three weeks after the incident. She did not tell them she had killed their son. Police arrested her last Friday after a neighbour stumbled on Mlauzi’s remains while looking for chickens that had strayed to the couple’s home.

Mr Fedious Sibanda, one of the neighbours said It’s shocking that a 23-year-old woman has the guts to brutally kill someone and stay with the body for days.

Another neighbour Mrs Sipho Ncube said the couple always fought whenever Mlauzi came home drunk.

”The whole community knows that there would be a fight whenever he came home drunk. What is sad is that the couple has very young children. The other child is almost two-years-old while the other one is nine months old,” said Sipho.

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