Irish police say no evidence Interpol red flagged ...

Irish police say no evidence Interpol red flagged Peter Dube is in the European country

Zim Now Writer

Irish authorities have so far found no evidence to back up allegations that a man wanted for the murder of three people in Zimbabwe is living in Ireland having claimed asylum under a false name.

“We are happy he is not at the facility named in the media and we have found zero evidence that he is here at all. Inquiries are continuing, but at this stage there is nothing to suggest he is in Ireland,” the Irish Mirror reported a police source this Thursday.

The source further said that Irish authorities are conducting an investigation into the intelligence provided by Zimbabwe.

The source also said that the Irish police need an official request to arrest Dube, should they locate him within the country as the Interpol Red Notice that Dube is subject to “does not confer any powers of arrest.”

“All we can do if we find him here is notify authorities in Zimbabwe and then it will be up to them to ask Ireland to arrest him and send him back,” the source said.

Zimbabwean police have reported that Peter Dube was put on Interpol’s most wanted list after the 37-year-old Gweru second hand car dealer fled the country to escape from triple murder charged and a separate but related attempted murder charge.

“Ongoing investigations confirm that he disappeared and left the country,” said police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi.

He said that police investigation followed Dube to Eswatini, where he began living under the false name of Xolile Mtsali.

“He then relocated to Ireland, where he sought asylum,” added Nyathi.

Dube, a second-hand car salesman, allegedly confronted his wife, Nyasha Nharingo, and her suspected lover outside an apartment in Gweru before fatally shooting the lover, Shelton Chinhango. He then shot his wife’s best friend, Gamuchirai Mudungwe, in the chest who died instantly before shooting Nyasha herself and her sister, Nyaradzo.

Nyasha managed to survive the attack; however, her sister was later pronounced dead in the hospital.

Zimbabwean authorities believe that shortly after arriving in Dublin, Dube helped his other wife, Nomatter Chawana- also under a new identity, to follow him to the country with his children.

The authorities allege that the family is now living as asylum seekers at the Red Cow Moran Hotel in the Republic of Ireland’s capital- a claim that has since been dismissed by Irish police, according to the Irish Mirror report.

The investigation is ongoing.