Man Hangs Himself After Wife Advised Him To Stop Drinking

A 45-year-old man in Dowa has hanged himself to a tree after his wife urged him to stop drinking beer.

The deceased has been identified as Isaac Nyati from Khombe Village in the area of Traditional Authority Chiwere in Dowa District.


The incident happened yesterday morning and the deceased was found hanging dead in a garden.

The deceased was a well known drunkard and whenever his wife reasoned with him to stop drinking, he would go missing for sometime.

This has been happening for several times and on Friday, the deceased left his house pretending that he was going to drink beer at a nearby village.

However, he did not come back home until his wife and the children started looking for him within the village and they were later informed that he was seen hanging dead in a tree in a nearby garden.

The matter was reported to police, who in turn visited the scene and postmortem conducted at Thonje Health Centre established that death was caused due to suffocation secondary to strangulation.

No foul play has been suspected.