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| A 4 YEAR OLD BOY |
A trusting youngster was snatched by an uncle said to
be involved in witchcraft who is accused of skinning him then drinking his
blood and eating his heart
The
evil killing of the four-year-old boy has rocked the village where he
disappeared after his grandmother tracked him down to a blood-soaked house of horror.
Kamvelihle
Ngala, 4, had gone missing while out playing with friends and his grandmother
Nontuthuezelo Gwanya, 70, began a search through the night.
The
grandmother’s sister then tipped her off her to check for the missing boy at
her son’s house saying she feared he was ‘in the grip of Satan’ and ‘did not
trust him’.
When
she knocked at the door at 2am her nephew would not let her in so she forced it
open and her screams at what she saw brought villagers running.
Nontuthuezelo
told reporters: ‘I thought a pig had been slaughtered there was so much blood
and then I saw the hand of my small boy and pieces of meat.
‘He
confessed to me that he had eaten the child’s flesh.
‘My
grandson did not deserve to die like that, especially at the hands of a family
member who was supposed to protect and love him’.
Police
returned and broke down the door and arrested the 30-year-old man inside the
blood soaked home and recovered many body parts from the boy.
Neighbours
said the boy’s ribs were on a sideboard and his skull had been skinned and
split in half and remains of his brain were by a salt shaker.
Police
spoksman Captain Nozuko Handile said the suspect had recently been released
after seven years in prison for murder after serving his sentence.
He
was arrested at the house and charged with the murder of the boy.
Family
spokesperson Nosidima Xakana said the village all joined the search.
She
said: ‘Nontuthuzelo got a call from some family members that she must also look
at the house where another relative lived to find her grandson.
‘Nontuthuzelo
went to her nephew’s house and pushed opened the door. The room looked like a
slaughter house. There was just blood everywhere.
‘The
body of Kamva was on the floor cut to pieces. It was a scene like when one
slaughters a sheep for a ritual.
‘The
body was carefully skinned and so was the skull which was away from the child’s
body.
‘He
told the villagers and police he drunk Kamva’s blood and ate his heart and
brains. The skull was clean with eyes gouged out and skin taken away.
‘This
was like slaughtering sheep or goat for a ritual. A liver was in another dish
with one hand’ said traumatised Xakana.
Village
elder Mte Saleni, 75, said: ‘When people are on drugs they are uncontrollable.
What people saw in that flat will haunt them forever’.
Mandisi Gwanya, 30, was remanded in custody
by Port St Johns Magistrates charged with murder in KwaNtsila village, Eastern
Province, South Africa.
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