AN Umguza man, Jeremiah Filbert Sibanda, is said to have struck and killed his 3-year-old handicapped son, stage managed the minor’s death and threatened his wife, Accurate Nyoni, with death if she reported the murder.
BY SILAS NKALA
Sibanda is said to have hit his son, Forgiveness, with a blunt object on the head after his wife had left him in his care, as she did the family’s laundry at a nearby canal 200 metres away from their house.
The incident occurred at Mafohla village on June 21 this year.
It is alleged after striking his son dead, Sibanda went to inform Nyoni about the child’s death and when she queried it, he allegedly threatened to kill her as well.
Sibanda proceeded home and collected the child, who was at the time bleeding through the mouth, nose and ears, washed it in the bath tab, dressed and wrapped it with blankets before laying it in his bedroom for the whole night.
On the following day, he buried the body in a shallow grave behind the house and covered the grave with grass.
It is the State case that at 2:30pm on the fateful day Sibanda planned to kill his son and he struck him on the head with a blunt object inflicting serious injuries, which resulted in his death. Sibanda allegedly left the body in the dining room and went to inform his wife about the death of the child.
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On June 22 at 6pm Sibanda allegedly took the body and buried it in a shallow grave some 13 metres away behind the house and covered the grave with grass.
He then allegedly escorted his wife to board a Binga-bound bus to go and inform her mother that the child had died of natural causes and had been buried at Bernince Farm Resettlement.
However, instead Nyoni then went to Binga, where she made a police report and the case was transferred to Bulawayo, leading to Sibanda’s arrest.
On Wednesday, Sibanda was not asked to plead when he appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Tinashe Tashaya charged with murder and was remanded in custody to October 9.
