A CONFESSED wife killer has been sent for psychiatric assessment after telling a magistrate on Tuesday he could see his victim in the courtroom.
“She is here with me. I can see her, she is combing her hair,” Givemore Nyazvigo, 30, told Bulawayo magistrate Tawanda Muchemwa.
Nyazvigo, of Hillside suburb in the city, was in court for a confirmation hearing of his warned and cautioned statement he made to the police, including an admission of the brutal August 13 murder and dismembering of his 25-year-old wife, Lydia Sibanda.
Muchemwa ordered that Nyazvigo be examined by two government psychiatrists to assess his mental state.
He remanded him in custody to September 20.
Despite not being asked to formally enter a plea, Nyazvigo made a dramatic monologue confession before the same magistrate on Monday.
He told the court his wife had appeared to him in visions “with fire in her eyes”.
Prosecutors Masimba Saruwaka and Malvin Nzombe say Nyazvigo had a row with his wife on August 13 last month which ended tragically when he grabbed an axe and struck her once in the head. She died instantly.
In a police confession, prosecutors say Nyazvigo admitted covering his wife’s body with a blanket and going on a three-day drinking binge – taking breaks to chop her body into several small pieces which he wrapped in plastic bags.
While still keeping his dark secret , prosecutors say, Nyazvingo invited a friend, Raymond Moyo, for drinks as his wife lay dead in another room.
Three days after the killing, it is alleged Nyazvigo carried the plastic bags with his wife’s remains and, starting with the heaviest, began dropping them off at various locations in the city.
He buried her intestines in their family home’s yard and flushed some body parts, including her liver, down the toilet.
He was arrested after admitting the killing to his sister.