Pius Mukandi, also known as Jamba, a man from Chitungwiza who allegedly killed Moreblessing Ali, a member of the Citizens Coalition for Change, last year, has been further remanded in custody pending a High Court trial.
Magistrate Evelyn Mashavakure remanded Mukandi to May 9 this year saying the prosecution is finalising documents to indict him to the High Court for trial, NewsDay reported.
Mukandi has been in remand prison for almost a year since he was caught while trying to escape from the law. Mukandi was tracked down to Hurungwe, where he was arrested while selling his grinding mill to get money to flee the offence.
It is alleged that on May 24th last year, at around 10:30 pm at Chibhanguza Night Club, Nyatsime in Beatrice, Ali was with her dog and her friend Kirina Mayironi. Mukandi told Ali that her dog was disturbing him, without any reason. Later, Ali went out of the club and Mayironi saw her on the ground with Mukandi dragging her.
Mukandi used a catapult to attack Mayironi, who then went back to the nightclub. Other people couldn’t save Ali because Mukandi threw stones at them.
According to the prosecutors, Mukandi took Ali to a hidden area and hit her with something unknown, then killed her by strangling her and cutting her body into pieces.
Mukandi took the dismembered body of Ali to a disused well located at Plot 321 Dunnotar Farm in Beatrice, which belongs to his mother, Laina Mukandi. He then disappeared from the area.
On June 11th of last year, Laina discovered the body parts after noticing a bad smell coming from the well. She reported it to the police, who found Ali’s dismembered body. A post-mortem was conducted on June 14th of last year at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals, and the pathologist concluded that Ali was already dead when her body was chopped into pieces.
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