Barnabas Zarurayi, a Zimbabwean man has been accused of damaging his wife’s eye during a fight that ensued between them.
over “lack of respect” from her.
The woman identified as Tsitsi Mabwedza recalled being continuously assaulted by her husband in their 14-year marriage which is blessed with 5 kids.
According to her, they fought after his husband tried sleeping on the bed with his shoes on.
“I told my husband to remove his shoes when he was about to sleep on the bed so that he doesn’t make the blankets dirty and he ignored.
“After that, he started using the bedroom as a toilet, and when I noticed that I tried stopping him and he said it was his house and no one could tell him what to do.
“I was thrown on walls. I tried to run away and he caught me and started hitting my head on stones resulting in my eye being plucked out.”
Meanwhile, Barnabas who accused his wife of lacking respect, however, claimed he does not remember what led to the fight.
The man said he was later surprised to see his wife’s eye bleeding, and also added that he doesn’t like people making him angry because he doesn’t know how to control himself.
An eyewitness who corroborated what Barnabas’ wife said, revealed that he (Barnabas) passed through a muddy road on his way home from work. The eyewitness added that after Barnabas’ wife told him to remove his dirty shoes, he started boasting that no one should tell him what to do in the house. He later urinated in the bedroom and all over on the floor before his wife confronted him, leading to a fight.
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