Jamba (31) appeared in court yesterday before magistrate
Dennis Mangosi.
According to police investigations, after committing the
crime, Mukandi fled to his mother’s home area in Hurungwe’s Chidamoyo area.
Mukandi wanted to sell a grinding mill to raise transport
money to Zambia or Mozambique, but was later arrested with the help of the
community who got wind of his presence.
It also emerged from the investigating officer identified
in court as A Dimimbo that Ali was not Mukandi’s girlfriend, and that it was
the first time for Mukandi to see the deceased.
After Ali’s body was discovered on June 11, government
officials described the murder as a crime of passion after it emerged that
Mukandi was in the company of a cousin, Simba Chisango, who is said to be a
well known Zanu PF terror gang leader in Chitungwiza.
Police also issued a statement saying the murder was not
politically motivated as the two were allegedly lovers.
Mukandi was remanded in custody to July 1, and advised to
apply for bail at the High Court.
The accused, who was not asked to plead, told the court
that he needed a lawyer.
Allegations are that on May 24 this year around 10:30pm at
Chibhanguza Night Club, Nyatsime, Beatrice, Ali was in the company of her dog
and a friend, Kirina Mayironi .
Unprovoked, Mukandi told the deceased that her dog was
disturbing his peace.
The deceased later went out of the nightclub, and was
followed by Mayironi who saw her lying on the ground with the suspect dragging
her.
Mukandi attacked Mayironi with a catapult, and she fled
back into the nightclub.
Other patrons failed to save her as Mukandi pelted them
with stones.
Prosecutors alleged
that Mukandi took the now deceased from the vicinity of the night club to an unknown secluded place
and struck her with an unknown object, before strangling her to death and
cutting her body into three pieces.
Mukandi took the dismembered body parts to Plot 321
Dunnotar Farm in Beatrice, which belongs to his mother Laina Mukandi where he
dumped them into a disused well before disappearing from the area.
On June 11, Laina Mukandi discovered the body of the now
deceased after a strong stench emanated from the well.
She advised police, leading to the discovery of the
dismembered body.
On June 14, a post-mortem was conducted on the remains of
the now deceased at Parirenyatwa Hospital, Harare by a forensic pathologist
identified in court papers as Dr Mayedo, who said Ali was already dead when her
body was chopped into pieces. Standard
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