In a rather disturbing development, two Epworth men were on Tuesday arrested for attempting to forcefully have sex with a corpse.

The publication has established from New Zimbabwe that a drunk man only identified as Bigman visited Melisa Mazhindu (20) mother’s place of residence in  Epworth home accompanied by a friend, upon hearing about her death.

According to the police memo on the 2nd of January Bigman in the company of an unidentified friend are alleged to have stormed the funeral wake of Melisa and demanded to have “s_ex” with the deceased so as to satisfy his desires.

“One of the accused persons popularly known as Bigman with no further particulars stated that ‘machembere maswerasei,musikana uyu ndaimuda zvikuru,zvino azoshaya ndisati ndamus**a, asi kunyange zvake afa hapana chinonditadzisa kuzadzikisa chido changu asati avigwa (I loved this girl and she died before I could have s_x with her but I can still fulfil my desire before she is buried),” read part of the police memo.

Melisa’s mother tried to restrain them but Bigman together with his friend pushed them aside and went ahead uncovered the corpse and started to simulate a sex act on top of her.

“Phillipa Mazhindu cautioned Bigman against that but he stood up and went to uncover the corpse which was lying in the room covered with a white cloth, slept on its top and made up and down movements of copulation on the corpse but with his clothes put on whilst the other accused was blocking Phillipa Mazhindu and the other two women from interfering with the activity,” reads part of the memo.

He was restrained by other mourners after Phillipa screamed and alerted other mourners who had attended the funeral wake.

“Phillipa Mazhindu had to scream whilst calling people who were outside who then came and removed the accused from the corpse and pushed the two outside.”

A report was made and the duo was arrested. The duo is being charged with violating a dead body as defined in Section 111 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, Chapter 9.