adminMissing boy’s family positively identifies clothes
Elita Chikwati and Wenceslaus Murape
PARENTS of Given Flint Matapure (3) who went missing in August at the Harare Agricultural Show yesterday identified clothes that were found where skeletal remains of a child were recovered on Monday as their son’s.
Given’s mother, Ms Wengesayi Diki, confirmed that a pair of black jeans, one black sports shoe, a pair of black socks and children’s yellow sunglasses that were found at the site belonged to her son.
She said these were the clothes the toddler was wearing when he disappeared.
The clothes included a T-shirt bearing a Spiderman cartoon insignia that was also recovered.
But she could not conclude that the bones belonged to Given.
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