Married Pastor Killed Himself after Being Dumped By Teenage Lover in UK

 

A married Zimbabwean pastor, in Birmingham, UK, killed himself after being dumped by his teenage lover, an inquest heard.

Ruvimbo Muchemwa, aged 34, overdosed on painkillers after his 19-year-old mistress ended their relationship.

The father-of-two was terrified she would reveal details of their romance and he had been ordered out of his Bartley Green home by his furious wife, the inquest heard.

The Zimbabwean-born pastor, who was on medication prescribed for back pain, was found dead, the hearing was told.

Mr Muchemwa’s wife, Nyembesi, said her husband, a pastor at the Christian Faith Church in Bearwood, had threatened to kill himself if his affair was made public.

“In his role he gave advice to the congregation in matrimonial matters, so the fact he was having an affair would have been very serious,” she said.

“Look at you’, I told him. ‘You’re a man of God. Having an affair doesn’t make sense’. He told me that if it came out, he would kill himself.”

She said her husband of seven years, who left Zimbabwe a decade ago, suffered “constant back pain” after an incident at work, was unable to find employment as a teacher and became depressed.

Mrs Muchemwa said she discovered his affair in March, through texts on his phone.

Mrs Muchemwa said her husband agreed to end the relationship but she found more texts. And on November 8 she found the affair was still continuing, despite more denials.

“I told him to pack his bags and go and live with his girl. I told him: ‘Maybe I overestimated your sickness because you are cheating on me and that doesn’t add up’,” Mrs Muchemwa said.

Police later found her husband’s body in the loft of their house in Bartley Woods, Bartley Green.

Det Con Wayne Johnson said Mr Muchemwa’s lover emailed him on November 7 to say she was ending their relationship because she had met someone else.

Another email, sent to a relative in Zimbabwe read: “It is better to be alone on the corner of the roof than live with a contentious wife.”