Dad'schilling threat to partner he battered in Tuebrook kitchen 'blood bath'
Louden Chagona repeatedly hit Abigail Chinorwadza around the head with a pot before pouring boiling water over her in the attack in a Tuebrook house.
A violent dad pretended to kill himself in a sick "prank" before battering his partner with a pot after falsely accusing her of being unfaithful. Louden Chagona, 50, repeatedly hit his now former wife Abigail Chinorwadza around the head before dousing her with boiling water from an electric kettle during the horrifying attack in the kitchen of their house on Snaefell Avenue in Tuebrook.
Chagona had only been in the country a matter of weeks after he successfully applied for a visa to bring his daughter from Zimbabwe to join Ms Chinorwadza. But after finding out she wanted to leave him because of his persistent fake accusations, Chagona threatened first to kill himself, before attempting to murder her.
The screams of Chagona's daughter, who witnessed the assault, brought neighbours to the rescue. They recalled finding a "blood bath". Meanwhile crime scene investigators found the deformed weapon "completely bent out of shape with [the victim's] blood across it".
A Liverpool Crown Court judge told Chagona on Friday: "The ferocity of the attack was troubling, your decision to then scald her is very disturbing," before determining he was a dangerous offender who posed an extremely high risk of serious harm to members of the public.
Robert Dudley, prosecuting, told the court on Friday that Chagona and Ms Chinorwadza had met in Zimbabwe after the former's first husband had died. The pair married in 2012 and later had a daughter together. Chagona moved to South Africa where he worked for a law firm while his wife remained in Zimbabwe and worked in a shop.
The court heard Chagona had accused his partner of having affairs with other men but they stayed together. However, after she was the victim of an armed robbery at the shop she worked at she decided to move to the UK with her sister and brother-in-law.
Ms Chinorwadza first settled in Middlesbrough in October 2023 and through her work as a carer sent $250 a month to her husband and daughter. In late 2024 she moved to a new care job in Liverpool and settled in a studio apartment.
The court heard in 2025, Chagona, the pair's daughter and Ms Chinorwadza's son from her previous marriage applied for visas to move to the UK. While the older boy was unsuccessful, Chagona and their child's applications got the green light and they arrived in the UK in April this year.
Mr Dudley said they settled in a small house with limited furniture. Ms Chinorwadza decided to sleep in the double bed with her daughter, who was 12 at the time, while Chagona would be on his own in the single bed. The court heard she made it clear she wanted no intimacy with him but made efforts to help him find a job.
Chagona found Ms Chinorwadza's pill and a pregnancy test and accused her again of being unfaithful. However, the court heard she was taking the pill to regulate her menstrual flow and had used the pregnancy test because it was a requirement because she had an anaemia blood test.
Mr Dudley said: "Abigail recalled a stage within weeks of his arrival when she told her family she wanted to get out of the marriage. She then told Mr Chagona. They continued to argue. One day he pretended he had taken some poison and lay on the floor with a white substance coming out of his mouth.
"His daughter found him and screamed. Abigail said not to touch him and she called an ambulance. He then stood up and said it was a prank."
Ms Chinorwadza was in the kitchen preparing to leave for work at around 6am on May 17 this year. The court heard Chagona came in and they said "morning" to each other, before he then asked if she was sure she did not want to be with him anymore.
'If you do not want me, I will kill you'
Mr Dudley said: "When she said she did not, the defendant said 'if you do not want me, I will kill you'. Taking a heavy steel pot from the stove, he hit her in the head. When she asked him to stop because she feared he would kill her, he said 'I want to kill you' and hit her again."
The court heard the victim screamed and called out to her daughter to call the police. Ms Chinorwadza was drifting in and out of consciousness but later recalled not feeling anything.
The couple's daughter ran downstairs and saw her dad hitting her mum with the pot before running to get her phone. After hitting his wife again with the pot, she ran outside, called relatives and shouted for help from neighbours who called the police.
Mr Dudley said she went back into the house and saw her dad pour "boiling water" over her mum's face. After hearing her daughter scream, Ms Chinorwadza struggled to her knees before Chagona again hit her around the head with the pot.
One neighbour who came to help later recalled "seeing blood all over the floor", describing it as "an absolute blood bath". Ms Chinorwadza was in the foetal position and appeared to be lifeless before letting out a grunt.
Another neighbour, who was a trainee nurse, recalled seeing Chagona with a can of cola. The court heard he told the neighbours: "If you want to call the police you can call," before adding what Ms Chinorwadza "was doing to me was not nice".
I have beat my wife. I am waiting for the police to come and arrest me
Mr Dudley said Chagona then called his brother-in-law, the husband of Ms Chinorwadza's sister, and said: "I have beat my wife. I am waiting for the police to come and arrest me. I do not know if she is going to survive...she is cheating on me."
Police and ambulance crews arrived at the scene and found Ms Chinorwadza with deep, gaping lacerations to her head. She was rushed to the Walton Centre where specialists found she had two separate brain haemorrhages, multiple facial fractures including to her eye socket, jaw and temple and floating bone fragments that needed to be removed from her brain.
She also had significant burns to 7% of her body and was taken on to Whiston Hospital's burns unit where she remained as an in-patient until June 10.
In a statement read to the court, Ms Chinorwadza said: "The assault has had a devastating and lasting impact on my physical appearance and body...I suffered severe injuries including third degree burns to my forehead and left arm, as well as burns to my face, chest, head, stomach and thighs.
"My forehead and head were left with open wounds and I have been left with permanent scars and numerous marks on my face and head. The boiling water caused severe burns leaving lasting scars and changes to the skin. My physical appearance has changed significantly as a result of this violence."
Ms Chinorwadza, who did not attend the sentencing hearing, added: "The impact goes beyond the physical injuries. Now I have to deal with the emotional pain of seeing how my body has changed. This has affected my self confidence, my self image and my emotional wellbeing."
The court heard as a result of her injuries Ms Chinorwadza had lost her tenancy, was now living in local authority housing and was ineligible to claim public funds.
Chagona, of Snaefell Avenue, was interviewed on the day and answered no comment. He later pleaded guilty to attempted murder on October 6. He had no previous convictions in the UK and the court had no evidence of any in his home country.
John Rowan, defending, told the court: "Nothing I say is intended to minimise the obvious impact that Mr Chagona's offending has had on the complainant. It is clear from the evidence put before the court and the moving victim personal statement.
"Mr Chagona's actions have changed his former wife's life, the life of his daughter and of course his life as well. He knows he is facing a significant term of imprisonment."
Mr Rowan told the court that there was some remorse and was surprised by a pre-sentence report that found evidence of minimisation and victim blaming. He said Chagona had expressed concerns about the health of the victim and was shocked by his actions.
Judge Stuart Driver KC told Chagona, who appeared via prison link with the assistance of a Shona translator, that he was a dangerous offender who posed a high risk of harm to members of the public.
Sentencing, he said: "You were jealous and angry when she said the relationship was over. You said you would kill her. You picked up a metal pot and hit her head very hard a number of times. She fell to the floor, you then picked up an item, probably an electric kettle, and poured boiling or very hot water onto her head."
Chagona, who wore a Montirex t-shirt and sported a bald head, was sentenced to 18 years in prison with an extended licence period of five years. Judge Driver told him he would serve two thirds of his sentence before he would be eligible for release.
The judge also imposed restraining orders to prevent Chagona from contacting his family again.Zimbabwean man ngavadzidze kurambwa hakusi kupera kwe hupenyu mhani uno urayira mwana we vanhu chii
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