Wife crashed own funeral after husband paid men to kill her

Rukundo had flown with her husband from her home in Melbourne to attend her stepmother’s funeral in Burundi. But it turns out, he had made a crucial hiring mistake. Saddened by the loss, Rukundo lay in bed until her husband told her to go outside for fresh air.

Since Kalala already knew English, their social worker often recruited him to translate for Rukundo, who spoke Swahili. Then he pointed the gun on me”, she said, adding that the man warned her that, “If you start screaming, I will shoot you.

“I said to myself, I was already dead”. After two days in captivity, her would-be killers spared her. After the mourners had left, Noela then confronted her scared-as-shit husband.

The hitmen then told Kalala the deed was done, and he informed the family she died in an accident in Africa.

A CONNIVING husband had the fright of his life after his wife turned up to her won funeral – after he employed men to have her killed.

They even gave her the evidence to incriminate her husband, including recordings of phone conversations and records of the $7,000 payment in wire transfers.

Ms Rukundo has now told the BBC World Service’s Outlook programme her story. Meanwhile, Rokundo was hiding out, secretly plotting an awesome revenge plot with her pastor Dassano Harruno Nantogmah, who helped her get back to Melbourne in secrecy. It took her three days to get back to Australia, where her funeral was in full swing. Rukundo told the ABC she’s gotten backlash from Melbourne’s Congolese community for reporting Kalala to the police. Little did he know that the funeral would have a surprise guest. Someone left threatening messages for her, and she returned home one day to find her back door broken.

A look of terror spread across her husband’s face. When Rukundo suggested she might go to sleep early, Kalala protested, saying that it must be very hot in Burundi and that she should relax outside.

He put his hands on his head in horror. As for his motive, he offered the flimsy excuse that he planned her murder out of jealousy and the fear that she would leave him for someone else. “Is it a ghost?”

“Surprise! I’m still alive!” she replied.

In a police interview, Kalala denied any involvement in the plot.

He was sentenced to nine years in prison in court in Melbourne after pleading guilty to incitement to murder. “I didn’t think anything”, Rukundo reveals. “He says, ‘Noela, I don’t believe it. Balenga can’t kill someone!’ And I said, ‘Pastor, believe me!'” She said, “My situation, my past life?”

Rukundo still has nightmares in which she hears her ex-husband’s voice give the order to end her life, but she insists her past life is “gone”.

Amen. Read the whole insane thing at The Washington Post.