Jealous boyfriend jailed for life for brutal murder

A jealous fellow who brutally murdered his spouse aft wrongly believing she was having an matter has been jailed for life.

Tanaka Zivanai, 32, repeatedly stabbed Zanele Sibanda, 28, aft confronting her successful a Gloucester street.

Bristol Crown Court heard the onslaught took spot successful the aboriginal hours of August 27 past twelvemonth successful the Tredworth country of the metropolis successful beforehand of shocked onlookers.

Robin Shellard, prosecuting, said the execution was the culmination of an statement which had started the erstwhile evening successful which the suspect had accused his spouse of cheating connected her.

“Tanaka Zivanai murdered his partner, Zanele Sibanda, connected the streets of Gloucester successful beforehand of a fig of members of nationalist aft showing signs of jealousy, accusing her of infidelity and to beryllium arguing with her,” helium told the court.

“He brutally assaulted her with a weapon helium had brought with him from his home, leaving her with aggregate stab wounds, which caused her to dice astatine the country of the assault.”

The tribunal heard the Zimbabwe-born suspect and Ms Sibanda, who was from South Africa, had arrived separately successful the UK successful 2023 and began a narration aft getting jobs arsenic attraction workers.

They moved into a level unneurotic successful Tredworth and neighbours would often perceive a antheral shouting and a pistillate crying.

On 1 juncture neighbours heard the suspect shouting: “Have you been f****** idiosyncratic else?”

On different occasion, the mother-of-two was visiting a person and the suspect phoned her and shouted: “I’ll termination you if you travel here, don’t travel backmost to this house. Stay wherever the f*** you are. You travel back, I’ll termination you.”

On the evening of the murder, neighbours heard shouting and swearing and saw a antheral and pistillate successful the street.

CCTV successful the section country captures the antheral and pistillate successful the thoroughfare and often returning to a adjacent level arsenic the statement continues.

A abbreviated clip aboriginal neighbours heard a pistillate screaming and saw a antheral kneeling connected the level with a pistillate successful his lap, with him saying: “Wake up, get up, get up.”

“Another neighbour called the constabulary arsenic helium had seen the antheral with his manus implicit the woman’s rima and past stabbed her,” Mr Shellard said.

“He described however the suspect started to chopped himself.

“He said however helium had seen the suspect stab the pistillate repeatedly.

“His member besides saw the onslaught and had heard an statement astir a visa and the pistillate saying however she was going to marque him spell backmost home.”

Police officers and paramedics attempted to prevention Ms Sibanda’s beingness but she was declared dormant astatine the country of the onslaught astatine the junction of Paul Street and Tarrington Road.

A post-mortem introspection recovered Ms Sibanda had died from aggregate stab wounds to the head, throat, assemblage and arms.

Zivanai, of Dora Walk, Tredworth, Gloucester had antecedently pleaded blameworthy to execution and possession of a weapon successful a nationalist place.

John Burton KC, defending, said the execution was committed successful “horrific circumstances”.

“He not lone feels genuine remorse for this offence, but there’s a heavy seated grief which astir appeared astatine the precise start, adjacent though helium was the origin of this death,” helium said.

“Mr Zivanai intelligibly mislaid implicit power of himself, not successful the ineligible sense, but helium wholly mislaid power of himself successful a literal consciousness and caused this young lady’s death.”

Judge William Hart jailed Zivanai for beingness and told him helium would service a minimum of 20 years and 10 months’ imprisonment earlier helium could beryllium considered for parole.

“You were aggravated and aggressive, and she was cowed by your behaviour,” the justice said.

“You look to person go convinced that she was successful immoderate signifier of relationship, possibly an affair, with different man.

“That was, arsenic acold arsenic the grounds indicates, a wholly groundless suspicion and that signifier of jealousy appears to person been a diagnostic of overmuch of your relationship.

“You attacked Ms Sibanda with a weapon which you had brought with you to that determination from your home.

“The circumstances of this mediocre young woman’s sidesplitting were horrific.”