Paul Nyathi|The family of a 25-Year-Old Marondera female ZRP police CID detective who died under unclear circumstances last week has accused the police of murdering her.

Detective Constable Antonete Silopa, who was stationed at Marondera Central Police Station made headlines last week when it was reported that she died at her boyfriend Artwell Mafukidze (38)’s house in Elmswood Park.

According to the report, the two had gone for a night out of drinking at Cosco Sports Diner before she dropped Mafukidze at his house later that night.

The report claimed that at around 11pm Mafukidze heard a crashing sound outside his house and went to investigate then he discovered Silopa had crashed into a water tank.

She reportedly staggered out of the car and told him she had drunk poison before collapsing.

She was pronounced dead upon arrival at Marondera Provincial Hospital.

At the weekend during her burial, more than 60 police officers who were bussed all the way from Marondera to Mucheke Suburb in Masvingo were chased away by the family after the deceased’s parents accused some senior officers of having a hand in the death of their daughter.

Two post-mortems carried out at Chitungwiza and Parirenyatwa Hospital both failed to establish the cause of Antonate’s death.

The family ordered a third post mortem whose results will be out in a month’s time.

The deceased parents became suspicious after the police refused to open a docket on the inquest of her death.

“There is queer behaviour by the Police. We as the deceased’s family suspect that Antonate was probably murdered for a sensitive case that she was investigating but whatever the issue is, we believe that there are senior officers involved and there is a lot of determination to sweep the matter under the carpet,” said the deceased’s mother Florence.

Florence totally rejected that her daughter died at her boyfriend’s place.

“If she did why did the Police not bring forward the boyfriend? Why did they not open a docket? Why are they not investigating the matter?” asked an emotional Florence.

She said even the way that the death was announced to her was unprofessional and she was instructed not to tell anyone else but speak to the superior.

She said that her daughter was brought to hospital by one Artwell Mafukidze and two others who claimed that they didn’t know her and they picked her on the streets.

She also said that her daughter had no bra or blouse when she was brought to hospital but these were later found thrown into the deceased’s house well after her death.

She also said her daughter’s house had been ransacked and her money was missing as well.

She accused the senior officers of trying to stop the family from getting an independent post-mortems.