Man Eats Boyfriend's Heart With Knife and Fork: Love Triangle Jealousy Was Motive, Say Police
A man ate a boyfriend's heart with a knife and fork despite the screaming pleas of neighbors in Cape Town, South Africa, according to reports. Police said Thursday that the man was an ex-lover of a woman and was jealous of her new boyfriend, so he killed him in a gruesome fashion.
The man that ate the boyfriend's heart was left unidentified, but the victim was 62-year-old Mbuysielo Manona, who lived in a house with his girlfriend. The woman said that her ex stopped by, but didn't give her any indication of what was about to take place, instead chatting with them both. Eventually, he gave her money to go buy drinks, and that's when things took a turn for the worse.
Neighbors close to the home looked through the window and witnessed the jealous lover cutting out Manona's heart. He had stabbed his victim to death before performing the grisly act, but he wasn't finished there.
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"The whole situation was crazy. We were shouting at him to stop, but he did not listen," one neighbor told AFP.
The man then began eating his love rival's heart with a knife and fork. By the time police arrived on the scene, there was nothing they could do for the victim.
"On the scene they found a suspect, a Zimbabwean national, busy eating the heart of the human with a knife and fork," police spokesman Frederick van Wyk told The Cape Times.
They weren't eager to arrest the man either.
"Even when the police got here... the guys were scared to go in. They had to call for back-up," a neighbor explained. "You can't really blame them -- how do you go into a room with someone dripping another person's blood out of his mouth?"
Western Cape police commissioner Sharon Jephta classified the motive for the murder as "definitely a love triangle."
The man was arrested and has a court date coming up soon.
