Man Killed Goat Herd Nephew, 7, And Sold Prime Cuts To Neighbours Before Dumping Rest In Toilet

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Story ByLee Bullen, Sub EditorJoseph Golder, AgencyNewsflash

Zimbabwean police have arrested people who murdered a seven-year-old goat herd in a sick ritual and then sold prime cuts from the boy’s body to two local women who have also been questioned.

The two women, identified as and Mai Katsande and Mai Mungandire from the northern Zimbabwean township of Murewa, bought hunks of the boy’s thigh from the killers, although police say it appears they did not know it was human flesh.

Parts of the body that could not be sold were disposed of elsewhere with his legs dropped into a 3m deep toilet, and his head that was also missing has still not been recovered.

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Local goat herd Tapiwa Makore was reportedly killed and dismembered on 24th September by suspects Tafadzwa Shamba, 40, and the victim’s uncle, also named Tapiwa Makore.

The killers were motivated by the belief that a ritual murder would bring them wealth and success. They have been selling off part of the boy’s body to get rid of it before disposing of the rest elsewhere including putting the legs in the toilet.

Meanwhile, the local authorities have since detained a third suspect in the killing of the young herd boy, named as 42-year-old Moud Hunidzarira. It is unknown what his connection is.

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Police are looking into whether other people might also have bought pieces of the boy’s flesh and the two women who purchase portions who admitted cooking and eating it refused to believe it had come from a boy until cops told them that Shamba had admitted to hacking flesh off the victim’s thigh to sell it to them.

They were both quizzed at the local police station and instructed to bring the cooking pots they used.

The victim’s dad Munyaradzi Makore said that the family has been unable to give the boy a proper burial as his head remains missing, and he is upset that the suspects have not told officers where to find it yet.

The case continues.

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