By Staff Reporter
TAPIWA Makore senior and Tafadzwa Shamba who were convicted for the murder of Tapiwa Makore junior have been sentenced to death.
High Court Justice Munamato Mutevedzi Wednesday ruled that the way Tapiwa was killed only required a stiff punishment.
He added that the two deserved death by hanging.
“The demon which drove Tafadzwa Shamba and Tapiwa Makore to commit this murder is relentless and could not be stopped. It can only be neutralized by death.
“Our hands are therefore bound and accordingly it is directed that accused persons shall be returned to custody and that the sentence of death be executed upon each of them according to law,” he ruled.
The boy’s body was gruesomely dismembered in murder which took place in September 2020.
His torso was discovered the following morning, mauled by dogs, while his other body parts were found in a latrine and it was finally buried a year later, with the head still missing.
Both defendants denied the allegations during the trial, although Shamba eventually confessed and provided detailed information about the murder.
