HAUNTED murderer Jorum Siwela, who spent 22 years of sleepless nights in prison, was yesterday freed on amnesty and immediately embarked on a hunt for the victim’s family to apologise and compensate for the loss.

Siwela, a former Chapungu Football Club player, believes avenging spirits were tormenting him as his emissaries failed to locate his victim’s family members for over a decade.
He killed his rival suitor 22 years ago.

Siwela claims violent nightmares, and images of the murder he committed back in 1998, flash in his sleep.
“Most of the times I find it difficult to sleep,” he said.

“I always dream of the person I killed. The name of the victim was Ullistas Mukowachimwe.

Sometimes he appears in my dreams, talking to me. He will be asking me why I killed him.

“At times I am beaten up by people who I do not see. I feel someone is beating me up so hard despite the fact that I will be alone in a room.

The problem that I am facing now is to locate his relatives, my parents have been trying to find them, but without success.”

Sources said the victim’s father and sibling were murdered a few months after Siwela’s arrest, making it difficult for his emissaries to locate the relatives.

Another uncle to the deceased, who also lived in Gweru, reportedly vanished without a trace.

Siwela was sentenced to life, but he finally tested freedom yesterday, courtesy of the recently amended Clemency Order gazetted last week.-State media