Husband killed while rushing pregnant wife in labour to hospital

A husband hurrying his pregnant wife to the hospital was fatally stabbed by assailants, triggering her to give birth as he lay dying beside her.

Talent Gono, aged 34, and his wife Lilian, aged 33, were ambushed outside their home in Cape Town, South Africa, where Talent was beaten and stabbed in the chest and head by the gang.

The heavily pregnant Lillian was in labour and Talent had called an Uber to take them to the hospital. The Uber arrived and Lillian was getting in the car while Talent was trying to put hospital bags in the Uber.

The group of eight struck while Talent was putting his wife's overnight bags to an Uber for their journey to the hospital.

The sight of her husband's bloodied body caused Lilian's water to break, and she gave birth to a daughter just moments before his death.

Residents of Joe Slovo township were too frightened to leave their homes to assist her, forcing her to lie alone in the street, cradling her newborn beside her deceased husband.

Talent, a welder, had spent three years saving and had finally gathered enough money to begin a new life in Zimbabwe, planning to leave with his family in April.

UK wildlife artist Carol Cox, who knows the couple, sold a painting to support them, with the proceeds helping to purchase Talent’s equipment for starting a future welding business.

Lilian is now left to care for their five-year-old daughter Mia and her newborn, also named Talent, while South African Police search for the killers.

Talent Gono and Lillian were from Zimbabwe and only went to South Africa for work.