adminPeter Matambanadzo Senior Reporter
Given Flint Matapure, the three-year-old boy who disappeared at the Harare Agricultural Show in 2011 and later found dead at the show grounds, is still to be buried two years after, with the family saying they are still holding consultations over the death.Given, who could have turned five this year, disappeared after he had gone to the show in the company of a maid and his remains are still being kept at Harare Central Hospital.
Matapure family representatives said yesterday that Given’s death was not ordinary and they needed more time to consult each other.
“The pathology report from South Africa positively identified the skeletal remains found at the showgrounds as that of our son Given and we have not yet buried him because of pending family consultations,” Mrs Wengesai Matapure, Given’s mother said.
“We are not in a hurry to bury the remains as the consultations are still ongoing, but once we conclude them then we can proceed with the burial.”
Mrs Matapure said the family was grateful for the support they were receiving from the public since the disappearance of their son in 2011.
“We are thankful and we just pray and hope that whoever is behind his disappearance will be caught sooner or later and face the full wrath of the law,” she said.
Harare provincial police spokesperson Inspector Tadius Chibanda said police were still investigating the case.
In November 2011 a groundsman stumbled upon skeletal remains to the south of the Exhibition Park.
Recovered with the remains was a belt, a T-shirt, a pair of black jeans, one black sports shoes, a pair of black socks and children’s yellow sunglasses.
The other shoe was recovered about 100 metres from the scene, while the remains were covered by mesh wire. Given’s parents positively identified the remains and confirmed that clothes and shoes found at the scene where the skeletons were found belonged to their child.
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