A jealous lover in South Africa
stabbed a rival, cut out his heart and ate it with a knife and fork, police and media reported Thursday.
Police were called to the gruesome
scene at a house in Cape
Town’s Gugulethu township by frantic neighbours, spokesman Frederick van Wyk
told the Cape Times.
“On the scene they found a suspect, a
Zimbabwean national, busy eating the heart of a human with a knife and fork,”
he said.
The woman at the centre of the love
triangle told police that her former lover had visited the house where she was
living with her current partner and they had chatted together before he gave
her money to buy liquor and
she left.
When she returned she found her
partner, 62-year-old Mbuyiselo Manona, had been stabbed, Van Wyk said.
Neighbours alerted by the commotion
said they had peered through the house
windows to see the man cutting out Manona’s heart and eating it.
“The whole situation was crazy. We
were shouting at him to stop, but he did not listen,” one neighbour said.
“Even when the police got here… the
guys were scared to go in. They had to call for back-up.
“You can’t really blame them — how do
you go into a room with someone dripping another person’s blood out of his
mouth?”
Western Cape deputy police
commissioner Sharon Jephta said the motive for the murder was “definitely a
love triangle”.
The suspect was arrested and is
expected to appear in court soon.
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