A DAY-OLD baby was BURIED ALIVE after a Fort Rixon man claimed his wife had been impregnated by another man, a court heard yesterday. Andrew Mhodi, 39, of Village 2 in Pioneer, abandoned his wife and five children in Chinhoyi in 2010 and did not communicate with them for three years. He returned last year to find his wife pregnant and reportedlyassured her he was not bothered by the pregnancy.
But Mhodi changed his stance with chilling cruelty by burying the infant alive in a shallow pit a day after his wife gave birth, the Bulawayo High Court heard.
But Mhodi changed his stance with chilling cruelty by burying the infant alive in a shallow pit a day after his wife gave birth, the Bulawayo High Court heard.
His wife, Deliwe Tsikai, was screaming uncontrollably as Mhodi killed the baby, Justice Martin Makonese was told.
Yesterday, Tsikai took to the witness stand to accuse her husband of the April 7, 2013, murder.
Yesterday, Tsikai took to the witness stand to accuse her husband of the April 7, 2013, murder.
She told the court that she watched in terror and grief as her husband buried her baby in a 50cm pit on a stream bank.
Fighting back tears, she told court: “My husband left home for Fort Rixon where he said he was going to look for a job. He never returned or communicated with me for almost three years and upon his return last year, he found me heavily pregnant.
