Man admitted murder before killing himself
Jason Dube made the admission in a suicide note found by Kent police when his body was found, three days after Ms Mawere’s body was discovered at St David’s Terrace, Blackhorse Avenue in Dublin, on January 29, this year.
Dublin Coroner’s Court heard that Ms Mawere, 26, who had been living in a flat on the Leinster Road in Rathmines, had been seeing Jason Dube for several months before her death but flatmate Charity Namalele said she was unhappy.
“She told me that Jason was telling her lies and she was going to end the relationship,” she said.
Ms Mawere arranged to meet Dube at his flat, on Aughrim Street on Saturday, Jan 28, so he could return money he owed her. Ms Mawere rang her flatmate at around 3pm that afternoon.
Ms Mawere’s body was discovered the next day by a resident of St David’s Terrace at around 8.30am. She had been stuffed intact into a suitcase dropped beside a row of bins. She was fully clothed and a black plastic bag had been wrapped around her head.
Deputy state pathologist Dr Michael Curtis attended the scene and carried out the postmortem. He said Ms Mawere had died as a result of strangulation.
Taxi driver Mark Wosser told the court that he was flagged down by a man struggling with a bag on Aughrim Street at around 8.30pm. He helped the man lift the bag into the boot of the car and then they drove about 400 yards up the road to Blackhorse Avenue.
Dube is later seen catching a bus to Belfast. Gardaí were trying to track him down when he was found dead by Kent Police. A note was found at the scene. Insp Tim McCarthy said it was to the “effect that he had murdered someone in his flat” but did not name the victim.
The jury returned a verdict of unlawful killing.
Speaking outside the court, her brother-in-law Madloitso Thom said Ms Mawere’s death had been very traumatic. “The family was devastated after hearing that their daughter is no more. She came to Ireland to study. She was a cheerful person, she liked to chat and most of all I remember she was a part of our family and used to take care of my children back home in Malawi. I am feeling her absence.”
