Police identify decomposed body picked at Gweru’s Kombayi hotel; deceased linked to assault case reported earlier

By Staff Reporter 

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GWERU: Law enforcement have managed to identify the entire body which was picked in the early several hours of Monday at Gweru Mayor’s Midlands Lodge.

ZRP Midlands spokesperson, Emmanuel Mahoko, explained police have recognized the human body of the deceased as that of 26 yr previous Denzel Trevor Dube.

The legislation enforcers have because instituted murder investigations.

“Police confirms investigating a murder situation next the discovery of a lifeless physique of a male in a disused motor motor vehicle in a car park guiding Midlands Lodge in the Gweru Central Business District on the 25th of July 2022 at about 0730 several hours,” Mahoko reported.

He said investigations have because connected the system to an assault case reported by a person Samuel Jackson Jacha, aged 29 of Mambo in Gweru.

Conditions are that on Friday 22 July 2022 at about 2030 hours, Jacha witnessed four men assaulting yet another male who experienced just arrive out of Pandas Bar, 3rd road, Gweru Central Small business District utilizing a rubber sjambok, empty beer bottles and okapi knife.

“The sufferer experienced then escaped to an not known desired destination, but with incredibly critical accidents,” Mahoko said.

Throughout that night, police attended the scene and arrested 4 suspects in Gweru.

Nonetheless, the now-deceased could not be located that evening.

The four suspects, all through the weekend,  were being taken to court docket where by they ended up remanded in custody until eventually 26 July 2022 whilst investigations continued.

In the early hours of Monday, an informant, Tendai Mafuratidzwa (34), reported at Gweru Central that he had learned a useless body in a motor car or truck parked in a car or truck park.

“Police attended the scene and the 4 suspects are now becoming charged with murder. Accidents reported to have been inflicted on the assault victim on Friday night are tallying with all those on the entire body,” Mahoko explained.