BY NOKUTHABA DLAMINI
An 18-year-old teenager from Victoria Falls has been arrested for suspected murder, where he is accused of murdering his 34-year-old step father.
The accused, from Chinotimba is now under police custody charged with murdering the man identified as Trust.
According to Matabeleland North police spokesperson Glory Banda, the deceased was found hanging from a 1.8 meters long tree at a Truck Stop area, on November 4, with blood at the back of his head.
The accused allegedly assaulted his step father with a log after being instructed to stop insulting the family and refusing to stop.
The events leading up to the tragedy began when Trust, who was drunk, started insulting the accused’s mother and sister.
The accused asked him to stop, but Trust refused and insulted him as well.
In the heat of the moment, the accused picked up a log and assaulted his step father twice on the head, the limbs and several times on the body.
After the assault, Trust went to a neighbor’s house and reported that he had been assaulted by his son.
The neighbor advised him to sleep in his car to avoid further confrontations.
The next day, Trust’s body was found by a 14-year-old at 6AM, hanging from a tree at a Truck Stop area.
Banda said he had used the rope extracted from a blanket.
Banda said investigation is ongoing, and the postmortem will reveal whether the cause of death was the assault or the hanging.
