A FORMER detective who went berserk and shot four people dead has told a judge that goblins made him do it.
Jaison Muvevi claimed the goblins had been “tormenting” him and forced him to drive to a church shrine with his mum.
Then they ordered him to shoot 62-year-old local “prophet” Chrispen Kanerusine with his pistol, the High Court in the Zimbabwean capital of Harare heard.
He also allegedly killed local police inspector Maxwell Hove, barman Munashe Majani and another man called Nyarai Round, as well as wounding four more people.
Muvevi, 42, who was married to three women in different towns at the same time and had seven children, later fled to Mozambique.
Defence lawyer Jackie Sande said he was obviously “unhinged”.
She added: “State witnesses admit that on the date of the commission of the offences, the accused was restless and was being haunted by goblins.
“That accused person, without any conscience, kicked the bodies of his victims, particularly the officer shot by him.”
Muvevi denies murder. The trial continues.
Goblins often cause problems in Zimbabwe, but are said to be invisible to everybody except the person they attack.
Naked female goblins once chased terrified policemen out of the nick in the Matabeleland town of Bulilima.
And screaming schoolgirls fled a high school in Bulawayo after being attacked in their classroom by dwarf goblins who metamorphosised into baboons.
A woman called Priviledge Jozi told how she suffered four consecutive miscarriages after being “unknowingly” married off to a goblin, while Nyasha Tayerwa and her husband both claimed to have been forced to marry goblins.
Sad Nyasha moaned: “My husband and I can no longer have lula-lula together.”
Loveness Nota, 41, blamed a goblin curse for the fact three of her husbands died while the other two dumped her.
She complained: “Men now fear to approach me.
“Many young girls are dying in households where goblins are active. Women are sexually abused by invisible men. We urgently need help.”
Goblin interference was also suspected when Custom Mutinhima, the headman of Mutinhima Village in east Zimbabwe, suddenly collapsed and died.
Other relatives accused his brother Aaron of possessing “mubobobo”, a special charm that enabled him to “have spiritual sex at a distance with a person of his choice”.
But Aaron protested his innocence and said he had nothing to do with the goblins.
He insisted: “I don’t know why I have been labelled a wizard. I just visited my brother when he was bedridden and then he died.”
The local leader, Chief Mutasa, ordered the family to stop their “shenanigans” and start a “cleansing process” immediately to get rid of the goblins.
