The Sunday Mail
“There is a history of psychopathic disorder in my family; it particularly manifested in my father, so this could be a hereditary condition.”
Veronica Gwaze
Emelda Marizani killed her four kids in the most grisliest, dastardly and goriest way imaginable on the fateful afternoon of November 11, 2020 at their house in Highview Suburb, Chivhu.
In an inexplicable fit of rage, the then 29-year-old, who reportedly had just had a marital dispute with her husband Lameck Brande, first laced four cups with rat poison and forced her children – girls aged nine, five, three and one – to drink the concoction.
She then put them to bed before slitting their throats with a knife.
She subsequently set the house on fire and fled the scene.
Marizani later surrendered herself to the police.
On March 24 this year, High Court judge Justice Munamato Mutevedzi convicted and sentenced Marizani...
