Man kills wife, buries her in pit toilet by okonne anita

      A 29 -year -old man on Tuesday confessed to murdering his wife before burying the body in a disused toilet pit at his house.
Lenon Mangwiro reportedly wrapped the woman’ s body in a blanket and placed it in a toilet pit before stashing layers of maize cobs on top .

The body was discovered a month later by neighbours who alerted the police, who then arrested him .
When he appeared before a Zimbabwean Magistrate Court , Mangwiro was advised to apply for bail at the High Court because he faces a Third Schedule Offence .
According to state papers , Mangwiro ’s wife was reported missing to the police on May 22 last year by her mother Letwin Chinyan ’anya .
The court heard that Rosemary Chakurira’ s body was discovered in a shallow, disused toilet pit within Mangwiro ’s compound .
It was alleged that the recovered body was wrapped in a blanket and tied with wire on the neck , legs and waist.
      Efforts were made to locate Mangwiro, but he was nowhere to be found until he was arrested on March 4 in Norton.
When police interviewed Mangwiro , he reportedly confessed to hitting Chakurira with a log that had nails , twice on the head , the court heard.
He told investigators that there had been a dispute over extra - marital affairs between him and his now deceased wife.
     A post-mortem carried out at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals concluded that death was caused by vital trauma and skull fracture consistent with a heavy sharp object being used .The state has lined up seven witnesses who will testify .