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RUSAPE – A 20-year-old man, Tatenda Mudziwedare, from Headlands, has been sentenced to seven years in prison for the attempted ritual murder of a seven-year-old schoolboy. Mudziwedare was “instructed by a businessman at Sherenje Business Centre to bring him a human head,” according to a statement by the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA).
Tapiwa Makore Senior and Tafadzwa Shamba have been convicted by High Court judge Justice Munamato Mutevedzi over the gruesome ritual murder of Tapiwa Makore Jnr. The duo will be sentenced on the 12th of July. The murder in September 2020 sent shockwaves across the country with revelations that his body was chopped into pieces and his torso was found the following day being mauled by dogs.
The State has failed to provide evidence against Maud Hunidzarira and Thanks Makore who were the prime suspects in Tapiwa Makore’s murder. The prosecution withdrew charges against them at the close of the State’s case and the two were freed on Thursday.
Thanks Makore (56) has been arrested in connection with the ritual murder of his nephew, Tapiwa Makore (Jnr), with allegations that he was given the boy’s head and arms.
Police are worried that Tafadzwa Shamba (40), the prime suspect and witness in the ritual murder of seven-year-old Tapiwa Makore (Junior), could be leading investigators on a wild goose chase owing to his suspected mental condition.
The burial of the seven-year-old boy, Tapiwa Makore, killed and dismembered in a suspected ritual murder in Murehwa, will be delayed as police need the results of DNA tests on the torso, recovered first, and the limbs, found in a toilet later, to prove all the body parts belong to the boy.
The family of the late Murewa boy Tapiwa Makore (7), who was gruesomely murdered last month for suspected ritual purposes, has requested local prophets to assist in the recovery of the boy’s head to enable burial of his remains.
Police have picked up a traditional healer for questioning over the missing head of the seven-year-old Murehwa boy, Tapiwa Makore, suspected to have been murdered for ritual purposes.
As the country is still in shock following the murder of a seven-year-old child in Murehwa, police have arrested a 43-year-old man from Zvimba for allegedly striking his son to death with a hoe while seriously injuring another.
The herdsman, Tafadzwa Shamba, who was recently arrested over the ritual murder of Tapiwa Makore (7) at Makore Village in Murehwa yesterday told detectives he killed the boy by cutting off the head with a knife in the dead of the night, while the boy’s uncle was holding a torch.