A 28-YEAR-OLD Chipinge man allegedly killed his girlfriend and incinerated her body after providing her with a concoction in a bid to induce abortion.
BY CHARLES LAITON
Fashion Mupakati, who is self-employed as a carpenter, has now approached the High Court, seeking to be granted bail, pending trial on charges of murder and tampering with a dead body.
Allegations against Mupakati are that on July 31, 2014, he administered an unknown concoction to the now-deceased, Headgirl Mabvira, of Gwaradzimba village, Chief Nyashanu in Buhera.
The State alleges the incident occurred along Chedutu-Checheni Road in Bikita.
It is alleged, after taking the concoction, Mabvira died as a result of complications caused by the brew.
The State further alleges after realising Mabvira had died, Mupakati used his car to ferry and and dump the body near Village 29, along Chedutu-Checheni Road.
Mupakati then allegedly doused the body with an unknown substance and set it ablaze in a bid to conceal Mabvira’s identity.
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However, prior to the incident, Mupakati was seen with his girlfriend in his car before she went missing.
In his affidavit, the investigating officer opposed bail, saying Mupakati had been on the run since the day Mabvira was last seen until his arrest last year.
The officer also said prior to Mabvira’s death, Mupakati had, at one point, attempted to terminate the pregnancy by giving her another concoction.
His lawyers, in his bail applicationt, said: “The truth of the matter is that there was never a point in time in his life that he administered a concoction to the deceased.
“Applicant (Mupakati) will vehemently deny that he murdered the now-deceased at all and avers that he is now suffering for an offence he did not commit. The allegations against him were made erroneously. The applicant is a man of good morals.”
