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Complainant petitions High Court over lenient sentence

Judges of appeal Happias Zhou and Benjamin Chikowero quashed the 10-year jail term he was handed down on the basis that the State mainly relied on circumstantial evidence.

By Rutendo Ngara THE father of a grade seven pupil in Epworth suburb wrote a complaint to the High Court alleging that the trial magistrate who handed down a wholly suspended sentence to a man — Peter Pasiwo — who indecently assaulted his child was bribed. Pasiwo saw the girl at a bus stop where…

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