Peter Dube, the suspected escaped killer, had eluded authorities for nearly three years. However, his escape ended when he was arrested and deported from Ireland to Mozambique. From there, he was deported to Zimbabwe, where he was arrested upon arrival at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport yesterday.
National Police spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi, confirmed this important development. Dube was deported from Mozambique because he possessed false identity and travel documents.
“The Zimbabwe Republic Police would like to confirm the arrest of a murder and attempted murder suspect, Peter Dube, who was deported from Mozambique for possession of false national identity and passport documents. A team of police investigators arrested him at 1405 hours,” Assistant Commissioner Nyathi said. At Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport upon arrival.
Dube, who was a Gweru-based businessman, was wanted in connection with three counts of suspected murder, one case of attempted murder, and an immigration violation. According to reports, Dube shot his second wife, her suspected lover and her friend in Gweru in 2021 before fleeing.
“Dube fled to South Africa before moving to Eswatini where he obtained false identity and travel documents after assuming the name Xolile Mtsali. He used the false documents to move to Ireland, where he applied for asylum. “After his arrest in Ireland, He was subsequently deported to Mozambique.”
While in Ireland, Dube was convicted of violating immigration laws before being deported to Mozambique after claiming to be a citizen of that country and adopting another alias. Armando Quinete Muchanga. It is understood that he fraudulently obtained a passport in which he claimed to have been born on 21 June 1985.
He is due to appear in court soon to answer for two fatal shootings and an attempted murder case in Gweru on April 23, 2021. Dube had been in the custody of Mozambican authorities awaiting investigations into how he obtained the passport that landed him the new position. identification.
“He was using a passport bearing the name Armando Quinete Muchanga and his date of birth was June 21, 1985,” Assistant Commissioner Nyathi said.
The Southern African Development Community has a protocol on the extradition of suspects between member states. According to Article 2 of the Protocol entitled “Obligation to Extradite,” “Each State Party agrees to surrender to the other State, in accordance with the provisions of this Protocol and its domestic law, any person subject to its jurisdiction who is wanted for trial or the imposition or execution of a sentence in the Requesting State for the commission of an extraditable offence.” “
On April 23, 2021, Dube, who was a car dealer, approached his second wife, Nyasha Narengo, and her suspected lover, Shelton Chinhango – also a car dealer – who was sitting in a minivan parked outside an apartment in Gweru’s central business district. , where she lived.
He then allegedly shot Shelton dead at close range before turning the gun on his second wife’s girlfriend, Jamuchirae Mudungwe, whom he also shot in the chest, killing her instantly. Dube allegedly shot Nyasha and her sister Nyradzo, and they were later taken to hospital.
He was arrested in Ireland on June 14 this year at a refugee facility in Dublin, before being found guilty by Dublin District Court of violating that country’s immigration laws. Chronicle