A PATHOLOGIST based at the Bulawayo City Laboratory who examined tissues of the body parts of Highlanders Football Club supporter Mazo Mgura, who died at a sex worker’s house in October 2013, has said the deceased’s lungs had a lot of fluids and his brain had a blood clot.
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Mgura of Emganwini high-density suburb died at sex worker 29-year-old Belinda Chikerema’s Yolanda Flat along Robert Mugabe Way between Connaught and Masotsha Ndlovu avenues after an alleged night of passion.
His relatives suspect that he was drugged before semen was extracted from him resulting in his death.
On Wednesday the State led by Jeremiah Mutsindikwa called Dr Rodger Chigangacha, who examined Mgura’s body parts at the laboratory after they were referred to him by government pathologist Dr Sanganai Pesanayi, who conducted the autopsy.
Chigangacha said he conducted an examination on the body parts based on the history of the deceased handed to him by Pesanayi.
Chigangacha said he used a microscope to examine the body parts, but said determination of the cause of death was the duty of the government pathologist.
“On October 30 2013, I received body tissues of the deceased from Pesanayi as a standard procedure of what should be done after a doctor has examined the body,” he said.
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“We received the tissues which were parts of lungs, liver, heart, kidneys and brain and the history of the deceased from Pesanayi. The history I got from Pesanayi was that he was 41 years old, was diabetic, he collapsed and died.”
Chigangacha said it was stated that Mgura might have died due to a stroke. “When I examined the tissues, I found that he had a lot of fluids in the lungs; more than the normal amount.
“I found that the liver, kidneys, heart and pancreas were all normal, but the brain showed that there was blood which must have spilled into it as there were blood clots.”
Chigangacha said he was not able to tell if what he found in the body parts caused Mgura’s death saying only the doctor who conducted an autopsy was able to determine that.
When asked by Mgura’s uncle Charles Gondo if what he found on the brain meant that diabetic people had such a problem, he said it was possible.
Pesanayi performed a post mortem on Mgura’s body and testified at the inquest on July 23 saying he died due to internal bleeding into the brain and a stroke.
After numerous queries over the authenticity of his post mortem by Mgura’s uncle, Pesanayi said the body could be exhumed and parts taken to South Africa for further tests if the relatives were not satisfied.
The inquest is being head by the Bulawayo magistrate Gladmore Mushove, who remanded the case to September 17 for judgment.
