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Tendai Rupapa Senior Court Reporter
A-24-Year-Old Harare man is said to have committed suicide by hanging himself with a cable in his house following an argument with his two girlfriends who had clashed at his residence.
The incident happened last year in November.

However, an inquiry into the events that led to his death opened at the Harare magistrates’ court yesterday because his relatives suspect that he could have been murdered.

The two girlfriends Edna Musiiwa (22) and Jiliviv Tome (28) are expected to give their testimonies today before magistrate Mr Arnold Maburo on what transpired between them and their lover Vincent Hlekisani of No. 1453 Tynwald South on the day in question.

Appearing for the State, Ms Barbra Ndoro told the court that Vincent hanged himself on the trusses of his house with an electric cable.

On November 18 at around 2pm the now deceased went for shopping with his friend Wisdom Muchenje.

He then met with his girlfriend Edna at around 5pm and took her to his place. His other girlfriend Jiliviv also visited him at his place at around 7pm and found Vincent in the company of Edna. Reports are that this did not go down well with Jiliviv and an altercation ensued.

Edna and Jiliviv later left their lover’s place of residence at around 10pm leaving Vincent retiring to bed. Vincent chatted with Wisdom before he fell asleep, according to the State.

On the following day, Vincent’s relatives tried calling him but he was not picking up his phone which forced them to go to his house around 1pm.

Upon arrival at the house, they reportedly broke the door and found him dangling from the trusses.

His legs and hands were tied with a belt

He was later taken to Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals where Doctor S.A Mupanda conducted a postmortem and concluded that he died of mechanical asphyxia (traumatic) due to suspension.