Harare — INVESTIGATIONS into about 30 murder cases, some of them dating back to May last year, have been stalled because of the unavailability of Government forensic pathologists.
The only Government pathologist, Dr Alex Mapunda, resigned in May last year and since then, bodies of persons suspected to be murder victims are piling up in hospital mortuaries while the alleged killers have been awaiting their trials in remand prison.
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