By A Correspondent- Police in Centenary, Mashonaland Central have arrested a woman who allegedly  bashed her husband to death before conniving with her boyfriend to burn the corpse in the garden on Tuesday.

Mashonaland Central police spokesperson Inspector Milton Mundembe confirmed that KIngston Chitsinde  (60) of Kadzungura village in Centenary was bashed to death by his wife Tendai Phiri (42).

Phiri later connived with  Givemore Chipata (50) and the duo tried to burn the body of the deceased in an attempt to conceal the murder case.

“I can confirm a murder case in Centenary and investigations are underway,” Mundembe said.

Allegations are that Phiri went to consult an apostolic prophet on the cause of their paralyzed child and on her return she had a serious altercation with her now deceased husband.

Phiri bashed Chitsinde to death and covered him with blankets before she proceeded went to pick her boyfriend Chipata who was also the deceased’s friend.

The two suspects hatched a plan to carry the dead body to the garden where Chipata set the body on fire.

The corpse was partially burnt and Phiri went to the village head to report that her husband was missing.

The village heard ordered villagers to search for Chitsinde and they found his dead body partially burnt in the garden.

It is further alleged that  the police interrogated the wife who confessed that she had killed her husband and her boyfriend helped her to dump the body in the garden before setting it on fire.

Chitsinde’s body is at Mvurwi hospital awaiting postmortem.