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Jilted Hwange man up for murder

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A JILTED Hwange man Nicholas Ncube appeared in court yesterday charged with murder after he allegedly fatally stoned and stabbed his wife accusing her of dumping him.

A JILTED Hwange man Nicholas Ncube appeared in court yesterday charged with murder after he allegedly fatally stoned and stabbed his wife accusing her of dumping him. Richard Muponde Senior Court Reporter

Ncube (25) was remanded in custody to January 16 after he briefly appeared before Hwange provincial magistrate Rose Dube on charges of killing his wife Kellems Mdimba. In his warned and cautioned statement signed in the presence of police officers, Ncube admitted to killing his wife by stoning her, arguing he had done so in self-defence.

“I admit to charges that I killed Kellems Mdimba on the 28 of December 2012. That was after she told me that she was not a young person and doesn’t want to be given rules and she also said she no longer wanted to stay with me,” said Ncube in his statement. “We walked together along a footpath and we started having an altercation about this issue and she was saying she wanted to stay alone. While I was trying to explain to her, she produced a knife and tried to stab me, but I blocked it and took it away from her before I hit it against the ground and bent (sic) it.”

Ncube said his wife picked up a stone and threw it at him but he managed to block it.

“I then picked up a stone and struck her behind the right ear. I further picked another stone and struck her in between the right ear and eye and she fell to the ground. I ran away into the bush leaving her in a pool of blood,” he said.

However, public prosecutor Tinomupeyi Mbiza said after stoning his wife, Ncube later stabbed her in the chest, leading to her instant death. A police report was made, leading to Ncube’s arrest.