A UK coroner has sparked fury after refusing to release the body of a Zimbabwean man who died on the 4th May, all because the suspected killer-driver has requested a second postmortem.
Following a fatal car accident that claimed the life of the man, Mr Kainos Mupungu, the suspect is now at large and on the run. Meanwhile, more than two weeks after the tragedy, the local UK coroner for Leicestershire has said the body will not be released until the suspect’s request is fulfilled. That action has caused immense grief to the anxious family amid challenges to foot the funeral bills for the long-awaited burial.
Mr Kainos Mupungu perished in the car accident on the 4th May in Leicester under suspicious circumstances. A subsequent postmortem report confirmed that he had lost his life in the traffic accident. The driver and suspect in the crime said to have caused the accident, actually fled the scene, abandoning the man to die, reports say. “The coroner concluded that Kainos died of positional asphyxia. His body’s position closed in on him blocking airways and it was not any bleeding that killed him, ” a close relative has said.
The official postmortem was concluded less than 5 days after the accident, but the suspect allegedly fearing criminal charges, soon requested a second postmortem causing the continuous delays in releasing the body. Reports on Monday stated that the suspect (name withheld) is currently on the run, a situation which has made the coroner withhold the body from repatriation to Zimbabwe.
“The suspect is taking advantage of legal loopholes and has hired lawyers to force a second postmortem”, another family source told ZimEye.
“But is it not our right as the family to have his body in all this,”? the asked.
Zimbabwean funerals attract huge daily costs since relatives usually camp at the mourning place until the deceased is buried.
When contacted, both the coroner and the investigating officer refused to comment with just a police source saying in general that: “Suspects also have rights.”
The Mupungu family in Zimbabwe have been waiting for more than two weeks for the release of the loved one’s body, and to date thousands of dollars have been blown as they wait for their loved one’s body.
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The killer driver vane mhepo kumusha kwavo the amaiguru killed someone a friend to the killer driver in another RTA havazive ngozi vapfanha ava
Reporter go back to school.
Please Brothers and Sisters take my advice. Stop the vigil tradition of gathering until the body is released as it will cost a lot of money.
lt can take up to four months before the body can be released as the Law will not be changed to suit tradition.
Talking from expirience, the Law wants JUSTICE to be done more than it wants to please families of the deceased.
Justice is done by using all evidence derived from the body of the deceased. If you rush to burry him, he will need to be exhummed later to fulfil JUSTICE, a scenario worse than waiting.
Exhume is bad, traumatic and against our Zimbabwean culture while waiting is fairly acceptible.
Please orginise donations as the wait will naturally acrue expenses.
Advise people to go home and wait until the datethe body is released.