Cannibal in South Africa 'ate ex-girlfriend's new lover's heart with knife and fork'
By Tara Brady
Published: 07:01 EST, 12 June 2014 | Updated: 08:20 EST, 12 June 2014
- Officers were called to gruesome scene in Cape Town's Gugulethu township
- A Zimbabwean national was caught eating heart of human with knife and fork
- The woman at the centre of the love triangle had popped to the shops
- She returned to find her partner stabbed and ex-lover eating his heart
- The suspect has been arrested and will appear in court this week
A jealous lover in South Africa stabbed his ex girlfriend's new partner, cut out his heart and ate it with a knife and fork according to police.
Officers were called to the gruesome scene at a house in Cape Town's Gugulethu township by frantic neighbours, spokesman Frederick van Wyk told the Cape Times.
'On the scene they found a suspect, a Zimbabwean national, busy eating the heart of a human with a knife and fork,' he said.
Terrifying: Officers were called to gruesome scene in Cape Town's Gugulethu township (pictured)
The woman at the centre of the love triangle told police that her former lover had visited the house where she was living with her current partner and they had chatted together before he gave her money to buy liquor and she left.
When she returned she found her partner, 62-year-old Mbuyiselo Manona, had been stabbed, Van Wyk said.
Neighbours said they peered through the house windows to see the man cutting out Manona's heart and eating it.
'The whole situation was crazy. We were shouting at him to stop, but he did not listen,' one neighbour said.
The woman at the centre of the love triangle said her former lover had visited the house in Gugulethu
'Even when the police got here... the guys were scared to go in. They had to call for back-up.
'You can't really blame them - how do you go into a room with someone dripping another person's blood out of his mouth?'
Western Cape deputy police commissioner Sharon Jephta said the motive for the murder was 'definitely a love triangle'.
The suspect was arrested and will now appear in court.
