SYDNEY MUBAIWA

MIDLANDS BUREAU CHIEF

GWERU-Fugitive murder suspect Peter Dube who was arrested yesterday at the Robert the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport after being deported from Ireland and Mozambique respectively has been brought back to Gweru .

Dube who was wanted by the police for allegedly shooting three people dead and injuring his second wife in 2021 following an altercation over adultery allegations was escorted under heavy police.

He is currently in police holding cells at Gweru Central Police Station.

Affer commiting the crime in 2021 ,Dube fled to South Africa before relocating to Eswatini where he changed his identity to Xolile Mtsali.

From Eswatini ,Dube travelled to Ireland where he was hiding after seeking an asylum.

Dube was arrested in Ireland for violating immigration laws in the European country and avoided being deported to Zimbabwe after he claimed to be a Mozambican citizen with the name Armando Quenete Muchanga.

He was deported to Mozambique where he lived for about a year.

On April 23 ,2023 , Dube who was a car dealer in Gweru allegedly shot Shelton Chinhango and his wife’s best friend Gamuchirai Mudungwe.

He then allegedly turned the gun on his second wife Nyasha Nharingo’s sister Nyaradzo.

On the day in question,Dube approached his second wife Nyasha Nharingo and her suspected lover Shelton Chinhango who was also a car dealer in the Midlands capital.

Chinhango was seated in a minibus which was parked outside Bensom Flats in the Central Business District where she lived.

Dube fatality shot shelton at close range and tuned the gun to Mudungwe whom he shot in the chest and died instantly.

He went on to shoot Nyasha and her sister Nyaradzo who were rushed to hospital .

Nyaradzo later died upon admission.

It is believed that ,Dube and Nyasha had a long-standing dispute with the former convinced that she was cheating on him.