…..Injures late husband’s lover severely
LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-Malawi Police in the capital Lilongwe are keeping in custody a 34-year-year-old woman, Maria Chimimba Phiri for allegedly stabbing her husband several times to death and seriously wounded his lover at Chigwirizano in Lilongwe
This publication understands that Phiri and Thom Mtuwa, aged 42, had been married and had a seven-month-old baby girl together, but they had been separated for some weeks.
Lilongwe Police Spokesperson Hastings Chigalu told The Maravi Post that on December 8, the suspect left her home in Area 43 where she had heard that her husband had a 21-year-old secret lover and he was spending his time.
When she arrived at Chigwirizano, she found the two chatting in the house and took no action then, but went to the market to buy two knives.
“She returned to the house at around 18:00 hours, and jumped on her husband’s lover and stabbed her on the abdomen before turning to her man, stabbing him several times on the abdomen and on the ribs,” Chigalu says.
Police Publicist adds, “After stabbing them, she jumped back into her vehicle and drove off but police intercepted and arrested her”
The victims were rushed to Kamuzu Central Hospital where Mtuwa died while the other victim is still receiving treatment.
Chigalu says Chimimba, who hails from Chiwere Village, T/A Wimbe in Kasungu, will be taken to court to answer murder and unlawful wounding charges.
