Truck driver allegedly kills son, self in Chitungwiza

A trucker’s jealous rage over cheating and paternity lies just wiped out two lives in a quiet Chitungwiza backyard.

Tragic Murder-Suicide

• Tonderai Spacious Mukaro ended both his life and his young son’s.
• He buried the boy in a shallow grave before killing himself.
• A poison bottle turned up near the bodies with no visible wounds.
• Cloth had been shoved in the child’s mouth at the scene.

Heartbreak From South Africa

• Mukaro arrived distressed after catching Christine Mashavire with their landlord.
• His wife sided with the landlord and told him to pack up.
• She later sent nude photos and claimed the baby was not his.
• Mukaro told his brother-in-law he planned to end everything.

Discovery Shocks Neighbors

• Robert Kanyangarara tried talking Mukaro out of despair around midnight.
• Bodies turned up missing from the dining room the next morning.
• Residents found Mukaro lying beside the fresh grave inside the yard.
• Police at St Mary’s station opened a file while the mortuary awaits results.