(Leeds)The body of a Zimbabwean teacher, Mr Washington Jitita who reportedly jumped to his death from a bridge in the city, is still stuck in the United Kingdom undergoing procedural checks.
Mr Jijita’s body is still undergoing checks by the coroner, witnesses have told this publication. The late Jijita died last Saturday night following a fatal fall at the vehicle-busy Woodhouse Lane bridge outside the Leeds Metropolitan University.
ZimEye also visited the deceased’s home on Friday and found people were still meeting, praying and consoling the family.
Our editors were told the post mortem is still to be conducted and so the body which should have left for Zimbabwe on Thursday, remains with authorities.
False information passed to the public
It has emerged that the public were fed with false information when they were told that Mr Jijita had been run over by a vehicle. Other reports last weekend even claimed he had been hit and run over by a bus while crossing the road.
But police concluding their reports on the very same night, declared that the death was not suspicious. Damages to the Toyota Avansis at the scene strongly suggest that Mr Jijita fell from above the bridge onto the moving vehicle causing severe damage to the car.
One of the mourners emotional told ZimEye she was disappointed that people had been given false information blaming the falsification on a named church pastor.
“Pastor (name withheld) was preaching to people claiming that he had been run over. I approached his wife and confronted her telling to stop misleading people,” she said.
Six children instead
ZimEye has been reliably informed that Mr Jijita’s children number up to 6, and reports that claimed he had only 3 were misleading. Two children are from an earlier marriage, while four others come from the second relationship. More to follow …
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ithink its better for you to hear the whole story before you give your comments pane kungowawata, dai maiziva chinonzi rufu musingadaro, is it because haisi hama yako. dai maiziva kunyarara kwaiva kwakaita munhu uyu musiri kudaro vadikani. muchaitwa mapofu nembeveve kana muchingonyora zvanusingazive
Ndainge ndamukwiza neyangu munoita zvekutamba nechombo changu . You go cookoo when I start doing you.
chakwadi chakubuda,how did the church service go.Nyaya iyi haina kumira mushe.Chokwadi chacho chakubuda…R.I.P Mr JIJITA…
waiting for more info..famba nebasa journalist
Maybe he was stressed to learn that Eric Knight and James Maridhadhi were contesting as MPs and yet the JUICE states that no primary elections were to be held to pave way for him to contest. Or, as a womaniser in accordance to mdc, maybe he was caught pants down by the husband, a vigil official and he decided then to commit suicide. Whichever way, dinga rakanyura chete
A lot of these MDC refugees are committing suicide as a result of stress.
Maybe we can learn from few people that he phoned just before his death
If he was thrown, it depends upon the status in society of the people who threw him. Are there any cameras to show that he threw himself or another force did it?
What if he was thrown from the bridge,how can the police say that there was nothing suspicious here.