Man Kills Girlfriend's Lover And Eats His Heart With Knife & Fork

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June 12, 2014 1:56 PM

Is this a carnivorous alert? Police say he used a knife and fork to eat the raw meat.

A jealous lover in South Africa has stabbed a rival, cut out his heart and ate it with a knife and fork, police and media report.

The incident occurred at a house in Cape Town and "scared" neighbors who immediately called the police.

The South African police spokesperson, Frederick van Wyk told Cape Times Thursday that, "On the scene they [police] met the suspect, a Zimbabwean national, busy eating the heart of a human with a knife and fork."

According to Kenya's Capital FM radio news, the woman at the centre of the love triangle told police that her former lover had visited the house where she was living with her current partner and they had chatted together before he gave her money to buy liquor and she left. When she returned she found her partner, 62-year-old Mbuyiselo Manona, had been stabbed.

An eyewitness claims neighbours peeped through the windows and saw the man cutting out Manona's heart. "The whole situation was crazy. We were shouting at him to stop, but he did not listen," he said. "Even when the police got here… the guys were scared to go in. They had to call for back-up."

Western Cape deputy police commissioner Sharon Jephta said the obvious motive for the murder was "definitely a love triangle".

But the suspect has been arrested pending trial.

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