A 35-year-old tout yesterday appeared in court accused of stabbing a rank marshal to death and leaving another one injured in a scuffle over passengers at the corner of Fifth Street and Robert Mugabe Way in Harare. Munyaradzi Kambovi, a tout who operates at the rank, was not asked to plead to murder and attempted…
CHIEF magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi has described crystal meth (mutoriro) as a great danger for Zimbabwe’s youth and called on the government to come up with ways to eradicate the illicit drug. Mutevedzi made the remarks while sentencing Mathew Hopkins to an effective two-and-half-years in jail for possession of the drug yesterday. The 29-year-old Hopkins pleaded…
THE Harare Magistrates’ Court has freed police commissioner Douglas Nyakutsikwa after ruling that he cannot be tried twice based on circumstances emanating from the same transaction. Regional magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti-Guwuriro made the finding after Nyakutsikwa challenged the fraud charges against him, arising from accusations that he single-handedly allocated a residential stand in Vainona. Through his…
SUSPECTED notorious armed robber Musa Taj Abdul, pictured, and eight of his gang members were yesterday slapped with three-year jail terms each after they were convicted of unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition. Abdul, Liberty Mupamhanga, Prince Makodza, Godfrey Mupamhanga, Charles Lundu, Rudolf Kamhanga, Innocent Jairos, Tapiwa Mangoma and Carrington Marasha were each handed…
SUSPECTED notorious armed robber Musa Taj Abdul, pictured, and eight others have been convicted of unlawful possession of a firearm. Harare magistrate Barbra Mateko will today sentence the nine — Abdul, Liberty Mupamhanga, Prince Makodza, Godfrey Mupamhanga, Charles Lundu, Rudolf Kamhanga, Innocent Jairos, Tapiwa Mangoma and Carrington Marasha. The nine had denied the charges, arguing…
HARARE magistrate Barbra Mateko will today hand down a ruling in a case in which suspected notorious armed robber Musa Taj Abdul and his gang are facing charges of unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition. Abdul, who was on the police’s wanted list for 20 years, together with Liberty Mupamhanga, Prince Makodza, Godfrey Mupamhanga,…
SUSPENDED Harare City Council (HCC) housing allocations officer Aaron Tayerera is back in court facing fresh charges of corruptly allocating residential stands to undeserving beneficiaries, prejudicing the local authority of over US$300 000. Tayerera was not asked to plead to the charges yesterday when he appeared before regional magistrate Esthere Chivasa, who freed him on…
REGIONAL magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti-Guwuriro will tomorrow rule on top cop Douglas Nyakutsikwa’s case in which he is challenging his placement on remand on fraud charges. Nyakutsikwa is accused of single-handedly allocating a Vainona residential stand. He, however, argued that the charge should be dropped as it emanates from an alleged transaction which is already before…
MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti, who is accused of assaulting a Russian national Tatiana Aleshina, will now stand trial on June 18 after the dismissal of his application in which he sought prosecutor Michael Reza’s recusal from the case. In his application, Biti argued that Reza’s past conduct showed that he would not be…
FORMER Air Zimbabwe chief operations officer and the late former president Robert Mugabe’s son-in-law Simba Chikore wants abuse of office charges against him quashed. Chikore allegedly engaged a security company — Safeguard Security Services (Safeguard) — on August 30, 2017 without following tender procedures. He has since filed a notice excepting to the charge, arguing…
