Murderer eats victim's heart, Cape Town June 2014
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2014 4:22 am
Gruesome business, all over the papers and radio this morning. Not clear how much of a real occult angle there is, but old traditional beliefs certainly played a role.
Cape Town - A man has been arrested in Gugulethu for allegedly cutting out the heart of his ex-girlfriend’s current lover and eating it with a knife and fork.
Neighbours were awoken by a traumatised man who had witnessed the attack late on Tuesday night, reported the Times.
The suspect allegedly stabbed 62-year-old Mbuyiselo Manona in the chest and neck and bit the victim on the left side of his face.
A witness told the Cape Argus he looked through a window of Manona’s house and saw the suspect sitting next to Manona’s body and “digging from the body and stuffing his face”.
Police apparently found the suspect with a piece of heart dripping from his mouth.
Manona’s girlfriend, Nomonde Tshabalala, who had been living with him for three years, has been left in a state of shock.
Manona’s sisters also expressed their horror at his death and said he “didn’t deserve to die in the hands of an animal”.
GUGULETHU - Police have confirmed that a 62-year-old man was stabbed to death, had his heart ripped out and had it eaten with a fork and knife by his alleged killer.
On Wednesday, Western Cape police spokesperson FC van Wyk told eNCA.com that a Zimbabwean national was arrested for the murder which took place in Tembisa Street, Malunga Park on Tuesday evening in Gugulethu.
"A suspect, a Zimbabwean national was found on the scene busy eating the heart of a human with a knife and fork," Van Wyk said.
He added: "Officials were informed that the victim, whose name has not been released, had been stabbed in the left side of his chest and in his neck and had a bite mark on the right side of his face."
He said the victim's girlfriend told police that while the couple were sitting in their home, the suspect arrived and gave her money to buy liquor.
She said she returned to discover the suspect stabbing the victim to death.