Two life imprisonment sentences for man who set in-laws on fire
By Auther Chimbgwa
A 38-year-old Plumtree man has been handed two concurrent life imprisonment sentences by a Bulawayo judge after he brazenly burnt his in-laws alive in a kitchen hut in 2022.
Criminal Investigations Department Harare Provincial Community Relations Liaison Officer Detective Inspector Rachel Muteweri announced “the successful conviction of Tafirei Ndlovu in connection with a double murder that occurred on 5 April 2022 in Plumtree”.
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The shock incident happened under Chief Wasi area, Madabe, Plumtree when Ndlovu, “together with his accomplice”, Kudzani Muthukuthu, who is still at large, had a misunderstanding with his in-laws over the custody of his two minor children.
The grandparents were living with the two children.
“They went on to lock the kitchen hut from outside before setting it ablaze, resulting in the untimely death of the victims,” Muteweri said.
Ndlovu was convicted for two counts of murder and sentenced to “life imprisonment on each of the two counts by Justice Ngonidzashe Nduna at Bulawayo High Court on 7 July 2025”.
