Online Reporter
YESTERDAY, we carried the story of the late Princess Shoko, who was allegedly murdered by her sister Alista Sibanda and her husband John Zvivi.
Her grieving mother has asked for police intervention to enable her to bury her child and end a two-year stand-off, which is piling on extraordinary pain on her.
Princess was only four-years-old when she was allegedly murdered by the couple two years ago.
The couple then fled to South Africa.
They were extradited from that country in March this year.
Given that Princess’ body was found in a bad state, in a stream along the Harare/Bulawayo highway, it’s haunting her family that two years later, she is yet to be buried.
In a letter dated June 30, Nomsa Sibanda, who is the late Princess’ biological mother, has requested for police intervention so that she gets a second DNA test and a burial order for her to bury her child as quickly as possible.
There have been a flood of reports on social media that Nomsa’s DNA tests, conducted at the time of Princess’ death in 2023, failed to match her daughter.
Nomsa’s lawyers, Hamunakwadi and Nyandoro Law Chambers, wrote to the police to facilitate a second DNA test, within seven days.
The lawyers said Nomsa “positively identified the body of her daughter which was discovered in a stream along the Harare/Bulawayo Road.
They said it was in a bad state and the pathologist’s findings at the material time were inconclusive as toxicology results were still pending.
Nomsa and her legal team are not happy that since August 2023, the body of her daughter has been indefinitely kept at the mortuary at Parirenyatwa.
We feel that it’s high time that Nomsa and her family are given an opportunity to bring closure to this tragedy which has traumatised them for a long time.
Closure can only come with Nomsa being given the opportunity to lay her child to rest.
The more that this case has dragged on, without a solution, the more pain it has inflicted on Nomsa.
It’s the worst possible family tragedy.
Losing her child in such a tragic manner was very heartbreaking and now, two years later, she finds herself enduring the same torture.
She knows where the body of her child is but she can’t go and take it and that is inflicting considerable pain on her.
We feel for Nomsa and we don’t understand why, two years after she took another DNA test, she has not yet received her results.
We know it’s part of the procedure but we also know that there is nowhere that one can wait for two years for his or her DNA test results.
Poor Princess also deserves to be laid to rest.
She is just a poor soul who was with the wrong people at the wrong time.
