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| Andrew Chimboza has apologised but faces life behind bars for his gruesome crime |
A tradesman who stabbed a customer's jealous boyfriend to death and ate his heart with a knife and fork has apologised to the family of his victim.
Andrew Chimboza, 35, who runs a window tinting business, flew into a rage after he went to a female friend's house to check on some work he had done.
He was confronted by the woman's jealous boyfriend, Mbuyiselo Manona, 62, who accused him of sleeping with her and hit him in the face.
Picking up a fork, Chimboza plunged it into Mr Manona’s neck before slitting his throat.
As he lay bleeding to death, Chimboza then gouged out his heart before eating it with a knife and fork.
Appearing at the High Court in Cape Town, Chimboza pleaded guilty to stabbing Mr Manona to death in June last year and told the judge: "I am sorry for what I have done and I have genuine remorse.
"I was so shocked at what the deceased had accused me of I let him hit me but that then made me angry – so I kicked him between the legs, grabbed a fork and stabbed him.
"I then took a knife and slit his throat and continued to stab him.
"I was so angry that I did not remember how many times I stabbed him or where."
Chimboza, from Gugulethu, South Africa, then explained he had chopped out the man’s heart because it was "full of hatred and jealousy".
He said: "I do not know why I ate it and I accept my actions were wrong and exceeded the boundaries of self-defence."
Prosecutor Jacqueline Sibiya said: "Because the removal of the heart was not the cause of death per se, it does not therefore have too much bearing on the plea of murder.
"It is nonetheless very disturbing."
The state accepted his plea and Judge Ashley Binns-Ward found him guilty of murder without premeditation.
The man is due to be sentenced today and faces life in jail.
Credit: Mirror UK
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