Prostitute Electrocuted While Drying Client's Clothes; Family Demands Payment In Zimbabwe

A sex worker in Zimbabwe electrocuted herself while drying her client's garments on a clothesline -- and now her family wants the client to pay up.

Cops said that Mati Nhamo had spent the night at her client's pad and decided to do his laundry in the morning, according to Newsday Zimbabwe. She was killed instantly on Monday when she touched a clothesline, possibly because it was touching a live wire.

Nhamo's relatives refused to bury her body, demanding payment for her "bride price" from the alleged client, named Last Mbele, B24 reported.

Mbele insisted to reporters that Nhamo was his regular girlfriend, and asked that her relatives sue the electrical company responsible for her death. Police dispute his claim that she was not a prostitute.

Now the two families are in a standoff, while Nhamo's body remains at the hospital pending resolution of the conflict.

The bride price or "roora" is the Zimbabwean custom in which valuables or money are given to the bride's family to seal the marriage.

Comments

[dbrett480]

08:09 PM on 03/07/2012

I don't mean to be offensive, but if she was a prostitute in an African country it's not like she had a long life expectancy anyway.

[XS VENOM]

08:08 PM on 02/29/2012

And here I thought it was everybody else s fault in just America. Happening all over the world.

[BookKeepersSon]

11:11 AM on 02/29/2012

"possibly because it was touching a live wire."

Possibly? Really? Only "possibly"?

[n4tvq]

09:32 AM on 02/29/2012

I'd like the number to that escort agency! Does she also do windows?

[agb1953]

07:42 PM on 02/28/2012

A hooker who cleans your clothes? Never thought I'd read those two things in one sentence in my entire life. A hooker who cleans your clothes. I have got to be in the Twilight Zone. A hooker who cleans your clothes.

[special38x2]

10:34 PM on 02/28/2012

ROLF...and your glock...

[NlaChef]

09:03 AM on 02/29/2012

i thought they usually only clean your clock ....

but clothes and my hand gun (Glock ) too good to b true

thats a good bang for your buck ..... jeje

[c1n9r6v3]

06:59 PM on 02/28/2012

_I feel so sorry for her. ` Perhaps she wasn't in a position to hang clothes._

[gotribe12]

03:22 PM on 02/28/2012

A hooker in Africa if the electricity did'nt get her the aids would have.

[rav1267]

01:12 PM on 02/28/2012

Electrifying article

[raanghaus]

12:19 PM on 02/28/2012

Im Shocked and Appalled!!!!

[360Dunk]

12:17 PM on 02/28/2012

All prostitutes should offer laundry, vaccuuming, and Swiffer dusting services to their clients in order to promote cleanliness. As a matter of fact, hotel maids make excellent hookers as they really know their way around a bed.

[solidermedicabn]

02:44 PM on 02/28/2012

lmfao

[Squiriferous]

07:20 AM on 02/29/2012

Not actually a good idea. Just ask Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

[360Dunk]

10:05 AM on 02/29/2012

Since he walked from those charges, let me ask Charlie Sheen instead.

[nomadbud]

12:16 PM on 02/28/2012

shocking story

[99 Percent]

12:12 PM on 02/28/2012

Wether a prostitute or not it was obviously his girlfriend,,,I have never heard of a prostitute waking up and doing their clients laundry.lol

[Ed Baggett]

12:09 PM on 02/28/2012

Maybe the electrocution cured her of STD's !

[gotribe12]

03:19 PM on 02/28/2012

it did

[wonderfullone]

08:41 PM on 02/28/2012

For good.

[prodeus1]

10:43 AM on 02/28/2012

If this was no ones fault then why did he tell her to hang cloths with one hand and hold the jiffy pop in the other???Anyone She was promoted from his private to a kernel in 60hz

[natal plum]

10:43 AM on 02/28/2012

They refused to bury her until the client paid for it. He shrugged and walked off. Hospital several weeks later donates the body to "animal science" and tosses it out in the brush

[prodeus1]

02:00 AM on 02/29/2012

Lion food,thay have to eat to!