{"id":14122,"date":"2014-06-12T09:06:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T09:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=14122"},"modified":"2014-06-12T09:06:16","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T09:06:16","slug":"killer-found-feasting-on-human-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=14122","title":{"rendered":"Killer found feasting on human heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/saps4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8741\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/saps4-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"saps4\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/saps4-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/saps4-70x40.jpg 70w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/saps4.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A man from Gugulethu, Cape Town, was killed by an black attacker who then cut out his heart and ate it with a knife and fork.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesman Captain FC van Wyk said: \u201cAt the scene police found the suspect, a Zimbabwean national, eating the heart of a human with a knife and fork.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A 35-year-old man was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Mbuyiselo Manona, 62, was killed at about 10.30pm on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wyk said Manona had been stabbed in the chest. There were also bites on his neck and face.<\/p>\n<p>A witness, Nkululeko Mpambo, said he had seen part of the attack through a window. He was too frightened to go into the house.<\/p>\n<p>Mpambo said he saw a man sitting next to Manona\u2019s body on the bedroom floor .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis hands were bloody and he kept digging from the body and stuffing his face.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mpambo said when he followed police to the bedroom the alleged perpetrator had a piece of the heart dripping from his mouth.<\/p>\n<p>Manona\u2019s partner, Nomonde Tshabalala, said she knew the suspect because he did window-tinting jobs for them.<\/p>\n<p>The dead man&#8217;s sister said her brother was a sweet and humble man who would never hurt a fly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe used to take our chances with him, but he would never shout at us. He loved music and grew up a sportsman. We are really going to miss him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police said the motive for the murder was unclear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man from Gugulethu, Cape Town, was killed by an black attacker who then cut out his heart and ate it with a knife and fork. Police spokesman Captain FC van Wyk said: \u201cAt the scene police found the suspect, a Zimbabwean national, eating the heart of a human with a knife and fork.\u201d A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=14122\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Killer found feasting on human heart&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5753,34,1322],"class_list":["post-14122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-cannibalism","tag-crime","tag-gugulethu"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/saps4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14124,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14122\/revisions\/14124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}