Wife stabber locked up

A man from Mabvumba Village under Chief Mposi in Mberengwa who stabbed his wife with a spear following a misunderstanding over anti-retroviral treatment (ARV) will spend the next 120 days in jail. The 47-year-old man appeared before Mberengwa magistrate Mrs Evia Matura on attempted murder charges and pleaded guilty.

Passing sentence, Mrs Matura castigated the man for causing bodily harm to his wife whom he is supposed to protect.
The prosecutor Miss Wadzanayi Shayanewako said on an unknown date, the couple together with its daughter, tested HIV-positive, and were initiated on anti-retroviral therapy.

On Tuesday, the man went for a beer drink and left his wife and their daughter at home.
He instructed his wife to give the daughter medication before she retired to bed.

At around 10pm, the man returned home and found his wife sitting in the kitchen and asked if she had given medication to the child.
The woman told her husband that she had not.

A misunderstanding ensued between the two and the man accused his wife of depriving their daughter of medication.
He then armed himself with a spear and stabbed the wife on the shoulder and several times on the head and she collapsed.

Their daughter called for help from neighbours who then ferried the woman to hospital.
The matter was reported to police leading to the man’s arrest. — Herald Reporter.

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