‘Cannibal’ not mentally ill, court told

THE MAN who has confessed to having mutilated his ex-client’s lover shows no signs of mental illness or mental disorder.

Yesterday, 35-year-old Andrew Chimboza, a Zimbabwean living in Cape Town, frowned from the dock as he listened to the experts’ testimonies in the Western Cape High Court.

Chimboza admitted in a plea agreement that he killed Mbuyiselo Manona, 62, last June, while visiting Manona’s partner, a client of his window tinting business.

According to Chimboza’s version of events, Manona attacked Chimboza with a knife and he had retaliated by kicking Manona in the groin, hacking into his neck with a fork and then stabbing him in the neck, chest and abdomen with a knife. Manona’s death was caused from deep incisions to the neck, chest and abdomen, and blunt-force injuries.

At the post-mortem, the doctor was presented with a bag containing pieces of Manona’s heart.

Three people testified in connection with Chimboza removing Manona’s heart, cutting it up in pieces and eating it.Yesterday, psychiatrist Professor Tuviah Zabow, who compiled a report for the court, said Chimboza did not suffer from mental illness.

Zabow found Chimboza was “able to appreciate the nature and the wrongfulness of the act”.

“There is no evidence of psychiatric disorder at present or at the time of the alleged offence. The behaviour is indicative of an emotional reaction of anger with goaldirected assaultive behaviours towards the object (person) of his anger,” his report said.

Judge Ashley Binns-Ward postponed the matter to Mondaywhen closing arguments are expected.