A SPURNED man from Plumtree who allegedly fatally attacked
his 51-year-old neighbour in a fight over a woman, yesterday appeared in court.
Methuseli Moyo (36) of Mabungwe village in Bulilima
district allegedly struck Chrispen Ncube with a log and knobkerrie several
times all over the body until he lost consciousness.
He then dragged Ncube’s body to his homestead where he
dumped it before he fled. Moyo yesterday appeared before Bulawayo High Court
judge, Justice Maxwell Takuva, facing a murder charge.
Prosecuting, Mr Khumbulani Ndlovu said on April 18 in 2017
at about 6PM, Ncube armed himself with a stick and went to his girlfriend, Ms
Siphilisiwe Sibanda’s homestead to confront her over a relationship she had with
Moyo, but he failed to locate her.
Ncube met Moyo walking with his girlfriend as he was going
back to his homestead resulting in an altercation.
“When he arrived at Ms Sibanda’s homestead, the deceased
failed to locate the woman. He left the homestead and on his way back home,
Ncube met Ms Sibanda in the company of Moyo and an altercation ensued between
the two men,” said Mr Ndlovu.
“Moyo struck Ncube with a log and knobkerrie on the head,
both legs and on his back. Ncube sustained serious injuries as a result of the
attack.”
Moyo then dragged Ncube who had lost consciousness, to his
homestead and left him in his bedroom hut where he later died. Moyo fled from
the scene and went into hiding at a friend’s homestead.
He was arrested four days later following a tip off.
Mr Ndlovu said police found Ncube’s body in Moyo’s bedroom
hut when they went to his homestead intending to arrest him for destroying a
door at Ms Sibanda’s homestead.
When Ms Sibanda took to the witness stand yesterday, she
told the court that they had an altercation with the deceased after she dumped
him and started a new relationship with Moyo.
“The deceased came to my homestead and insulted me using
foul language. He threatened to assault me for dumping him and I had to flee
and sought refuge at a neighbour’s homestead where he followed me and assaulted
me,” she said.
Ms Sibanda said on the fateful day, she had gone to fetch
Moyo from his place so that he could defend her from the deceased.
She said two weeks before he was killed, Ncube had
threatened to burn her to death in her bedroom hut for dumping him.
Ms Sibanda told the court that Ncube was furious as he kept
demanding reconciliation with her.
“On the fateful day, I left the two men arguing and
proceeded to my neighbour’s homestead to collect my daughter. I later heard the
deceased screaming as he was being assaulted by Moyo,” said Ms Sibanda.
She said when she arrived home, she discovered that her
bedroom door had been damaged.
In his defence through his lawyer Mr Dixon Abraham of
Tanaka Law Chambers, Moyo denied the charge. Chronicle
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