A 23-YEAR-OLD Chitungwiza woman, who fatally stabbed her husband in a domestic dispute over infidelity, yesterday appeared in court facing charges of culpable homicide.
By Sofia Mapuranga
Florence Shariwa, of Unit P in Seke, Chitungwiza, allegedly killed her 32-year-old husband Darlington Fereti sometime in October last year.
Shariwa appeared before Chitungwiza regional magistrate Estere Chivasa, who remanded her to Thursday next week for judgment.
It is the State’s case that Shariwa, who was customarily married to Fereti, had an argument with him on October 9 last year.
According to the State’s case, on the day in question Shariwa and Fereti fought over text messages that were being sent on Fereti’s phone by an unidentified woman who was purporting to be his girlfriend. Prosecutor Lovet Muringwa told the court that following the dispute, the late Fereti locked the door and put the keys into his trouser’s pocket which provoked a fist-fight with his wife.
It is alleged that since there was no light in the room where the two were fighting, Shariwa drew a kitchen knife and stabbed Fereti once in the chest as he tried to follow her when the door was eventually opened from outside by Justice Mutsikambesa.
Fereti is said to have died on the spot and his body was taken to Chitungwiza General Hospital for a post mortem. In her defence, Shariwa said she was not guilty of the charge, arguing she never negligently caused her husband’s death. She said instead, it was Fereti who physically attacked her, threatening to cause serious harm or even kill her, which scared her.
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She said considering that the door had been locked, she called for help from people who were outside in order to open the door for her to escape.
Shariwa argued she picked up a knife intending to give it to the people who were outside so they could use it to open the door since the keys were in Fereti’s possession, who at the same continued attacking her.
She told the court that when Fereti was suffocating her, she struggled to free herself to avoid being choked to death and it was at that time that her husband was hurt as she turned to face him.
