Posted on 06/19/2005 11:51:03 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
JOHANNESBURG, June 18 (Reuters) - A South African man choked to death minutes after killing his wife and eating part of her face following a domestic argument, police said on Saturday.
Police stormed into a house in rural KwaZulu-Natal near the border with Mozambique early on Friday after neighbours reported a disturbance, Captain Tienkie van Vuuren told Reuters. They found a 30-year-old woman who had been stabbed to death.
"Her husband was sitting naked on top of her," she said. "He had stabbed her and was eating the flesh from her face. The guy came at them with a knife. They sprayed him with pepper spray but it didn't have any effect."
After a struggle, officers handcuffed the man -- who was aged around 33 and had no history of mental illness -- but soon afterwards he choked, collapsed and died, she said.
The couple's two daughters witnessed both their mother's stabbing and their father's death and were receiving counselling, as were the police officers, she said.
"It looks like a domestic dispute between husband and wife," she said. "We do get a lot of domestic violence cases but not to the extent that it goes as far as cannibalism."
He was sittng naked on top of her while eating her face? I've heard of bad table manners before, but....
Me too.
Wasn't Operha down in Johnnasburg last week, something about her being a zulu queen or something?
Just wondering.......
I guess you think that is funny and that's the difference between you and me. I feel compassion for them and not humor (or I should say a lame attempt at humor)
In my heart of hearts I DO feel sad for their children. I hope they can forget the horror they saw. No child should ever have to experience something so horrific.
LOL! INSTANT KARMA!
I hope the irony isn't lost on the man's neighbors and relatives. Talk about poetic justice!
Just damn.
If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...
This sounds like it could've come from Shakespeare's pen.
SICK!
Poetic justice?
Call Putin.
Guess he didn't have the latest version of "Boil a Bitch" cookbook.
Philistine. If nothing else, everybody knows you're at least supposed to cook it first.
I guess that's the last time she chews him out.
Who wrote that? Michael Schiavo?
Try a little tenderness...
You know...there just are no words for this one! But it's the comments that crack me up.
Reminds me of the two cannibals who were eating a clown. One cannibal asked the other..."Does this taste funny?"
Yes, but this is Africa. Nothing that happens on that continent shocks me anymore. These children will likely witness many more atrocities in their short lives.
he was at least the co-author
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