Missing student case: What we know so far

Missing student case: What we know so far

Tateguru Writer

Livingstone Sunhwa, the missing St Mathias Tsonzo High School student whose whereabouts had not been known since December 2021, is believed to have been found through remains discovered by villagers in the vicinity of the school last week.
Sunhwa`s case had become a mystery as he had not been accounted for since his arrest on December 5 2021 for stealing goods from the school tuckshop.
He was later released in the hands of his school headmaster Godfrey Mbona to sit for his examinations.
On December 16 Sunhwa`s mother reported him missing to Mutasa Police.
For a while, there were no details on his whereabouts, until detectives from CID Nyanga took over the case on June 20.
According to a Memorandum, their interviews with the community pointed them to what would appear to be a major breakthrough in the investigation.
“After the missing case had been handed over to CID on June 20, 2022, a team of detectives from CID Nyanga proceeded to St Mathias Tsonzo High School to make inquiries with the School authorities and the surrounding community. Information was received from Linety Chapungu aged 28 of Samushonga village, Chief Mutasa, Mutasa who indicated that sometime in December 2021, while looking for firewood she saw a pair of black school shoes and a belt along Mashorani stream which is about a kilometre from the school,” read the Memorandum.
They followed up on the lead given by the villager, and arrived at a stream where they where they found belongings suspected to be Sunhwa`s.

“On 24 June 2022, a follow up on the given information was made. Linety Chapungu led detectives to Mashorani stream where upon arrival, they found a pair of size 6 black school shoes with no laces and a white vest inserted in one of the shoes, a piece of navy blue cloth and a shoe lace were found hanging from a tree about twenty meters from the pair of shoes. Another shoe lace and some suspected human hair were seen under the tree which is about four meters in height,” the Memorandum read.
Bones, suspected to be human and a skull were found, scattered about four metres from where the cloth was found hanging.
A piece of navy blue cloth with a knot was found among the bones.
The pair of school shoes, belt and vest were positively identified by Tapiwa Kabaya, a 17-year-old form five student at St Mathias Tsonzo High School.
Kabaya was a classmate to the missing Sunhwa and shared the same dormitory with him.
Investigations are still ongoing, police are waiting for a DNA report to confirm if indeed the suspected remains belong to Livingstone Sunhwa.