Jealous boyfriend jailed for life for brutal murder
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A jealous boyfriend who brutally murdered his partner after wrongly believing she was having an affair has been jailed for life. Tanaka Zivanai, 32, repeatedly stabbed Zanele Sibanda, 28, after confronting her in a Gloucester street. Bristol Crown Court heard the attack took place in the early hours of August 27 last year in the Tredworth area of the city in front of shocked onlookers.
Robin Shellard, prosecuting, said the murder was the culmination of an argument which had started the previous evening in which the defendant had accused his partner of cheating on her. “Tanaka Zivanai murdered his partner, Zanele Sibanda, on the streets of Gloucester in front of a number of members of public after showing signs of jealousy, accusing her of infidelity and to be arguing with her,” he told the court.
“He brutally assaulted her with a knife he had brought with him from his home, leaving her with multiple stab wounds, which caused her to die at the scene of the assault.”. The court heard the Zimbabwe-born defendant and Ms Sibanda, who was from South Africa, had arrived separately in the UK in 2023 and began a relationship after getting jobs as care workers.
They moved into a flat together in Tredworth and neighbours would often hear a man shouting and a woman crying. On one occasion neighbours heard the defendant shouting: “Have you been f****** someone else?”. On another occasion, the mother-of-two was visiting a friend and the defendant phoned her and shouted: “I’ll kill you if you come here, don’t come back to this house. Stay wherever the f*** you are. You come back, I’ll kill you.”.
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