Ex soldier Josphat Mutekedza has been found guilty of murdering nurse Miriam Nyazema in the UK last year.
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Mutekedza stabbed Miriam 23 times in the face, head and chest with such ferocity that the blade snapped and was left protruding from her back. He admitted killing her but claimed he was acting in self defence.
He told the trial Miriam pinned him to the floor of the kitchen during a fight, but he managed to sit up and pull a knife from a drawer before stabbing her. He said: “I was just trying to get anything. I was on the floor and there was two of them. That’s when I stabbed Miriam. I don’t remember stabbing her more than once.”
Prosecutors say that he and the nurse had an embarked on a new relationship following her split with Mutekedza. However giving evidence via videolink from Zimbabwe, Jacob Chigombe had denied that the pair had been in a relationship.
But a jury at Bolton Crown Court took just one hour to find him guilty of murder. Mutekedza made two 999 calls from the scene telling the operators ‘I stabbed someone’ and ‘she was cheating on me’. He was arrested at the scene in a blood covered white shirt.
Miriam worked at Shaw Side care home, a Bupa-run home in the Shaw area of Oldham. Mutekedza, from Eastbourne, is due to be sentenced on Friday.
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