Online Reporter
Arron Nyamayaro
A 34-year-old Waterfalls woman was arrested on Monday for allegedly lacing food, which she had prepared for her husband, with poison.
Abigail Mukono Rusape then swallowed the same poison after her husband Ezra Rusape, 36, discovered her evil act.
The two are battling for life at two different Hospitals in Chitungwiza.
Ezra arrived home at around 9pm from work and proceeded to the dining room to eat his supper.
He ate three spoons of rice.
He smelt something like paraffin in the food and stopped eating.
He went to the bedroom, where Abigail was sleeping, and asked why the food had a strange smell.
She told him that the rice had a similar smell when they had their supper. He urged Ezra to finish his meal. After a short while, Ezra started feeling some stomach pains and he told Abigail that he needed to go to the hospital. A misunderstanding arose between the two.
Abigail then downed some poison. Harare provincial police spokesperson Inspector Luckmore Chakanza confirmed the case.
“Police arrested a woman for attempted murder charges,” said Insp Chakanza.
“The woman was admitted at a hospital and her husband is also admitted at another hospital in Chitungwiza.”
