Bogus watchman waylays lovebirds, rapes woman
Court Reporter A 36-year-old man masqueraded as a neighbourhood watch officer and raped a 19-year-old woman for taking a walk with her boyfriend during the night. Thompson Nyamare from Caledonia Phase...
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Neighbour drags ‘noisy’ Musakwa to court
Elias MusakwaFungai Lupande Court Reporter Gospel musician-cum-politician Elias Musakwa (pictured above) appeared in court last Friday accused of threatening to shoot his neighbour after being reported...
View ArticleChinese national fined for selling Zim flags
Fungai Lupande Court Reporter A Chinese businessman was yesterday fined $20 for selling Zimbabwe national flags without authority. Weidong Li (28), who operates a retail shop at the Gulf Complex in...
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Respect sanctity of human life: Police
Senior Assistant CommissionerCharity Charamba – Pic by Wilson KakuriraCrime Reporter FIVE people were murdered in separate incidents countrywide as police continue to urge the public to respect the...
View ArticleKnife-wielding landlord to spend 3 years in cells
Court Reporter— A 30-year-old landlord who stabbed his tenant with a knife over non-payment of utility bills was yesterday sentenced to three years in jail. Timothy Mhurushomana pleaded not guilty to...
View ArticleLATEST: Private maths tutor charged with sexual abuse
Mutare BureauA NYAZURA mathematics private tutor who allegedly raped a mentally challenged 12-year- old girl, has appeared in court charged with sexual abuse. The 23-year- old tutor, Isaac Mtetwa of...
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Clown in sodomy storm
Fungai Lupande: Court ReporterA professional clown from Glen View 1, Harare, yesterday appeared in court accused of influencing three primary schoolboys to sodomise each other while he took pictures....
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Namibia border scam sucks in Zim migrants
Herald ReporterFive Zimbabweans have been arrested in Namibia after they were implicated in a case in which an immigration official allegedly stamped their passports indicating that they either exited...
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Cop robs house in uniform
Fungai Lupande: Court ReporterA Highlands police officer allegedly robbed a Chisipite home while in uniform and drove off with the home owner before giving him a dollar for transport back. Farai...
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Murder cases up 23pc
Herald ReportersPolice have expressed concern at the rise in murder cases countrywide, which recently went up by 23 percent during one week this month. According to police statistics, the increase was...
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Court puts ex-MDC-T MP Mubhawu to his defence
Timothy MubhawuCourt ReporterFormer MDC-T MP Timothy Mubhawu was yesterday put to his defence during his domestic violence case when the court asked him to explain the circumstances under which his...
View ArticleLATEST: Two more Zim men accused of murder, rape, robbery in SA
Thupeyo Muleya, Beitbridge Bureau JUDGMENT in the case of two Zimbabwean cross-border transporters and South African woman who are believed to be part of a syndicate terrorizing fellow countrymen in...
View ArticleRabies case spills into court
Court Reporter A 63-year-old man whose dog mauled a neighbour who later succumbed to rabies has appeared in court. Eleuterio Siphambaniso Mahara of Chinamhora Street, Old Mabvuku appeared before Harare...
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Bakery employee crushed to death
Court ReporterA Baker’S INN employee on Tuesday appeared in court for allegedly activating the dough mixer while his colleague was busy cleaning, causing him to be crushed to death. Tafadzwa Guta (33)...
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Rapist ‘watchman’ locked up
Fungai Lupande: Court ReporterA bogus neighbourhood watch committee officer who raped a 19-year-old woman who was on night stroll with her boyfriend was yesterday jailed for an effective 15 years....
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Free us: Gushungo bombing suspects
Fungai Lupande: Court ReporterFour men, including jailed Zimbabwe People’s Front president Owen Kuchata, suspected of plotting to bomb the First Family’s dairy farm in Mazowe yesterday refused further...
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Zim journalist jailed in UK
Clemence MarijeniCrime Reporter . . . gets 10 years for role in sham marriages racketUK-based Zimbabwean and former sports journalist Clemence Marijeni (43) and his 10 accomplices have been jailed a...
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Judges interviews: Top cops grow cold feet
Chief Justice Godfrey ChidyausikuDaniel Nemukuyu Senior Court Reporter— TWO top police officers, who did not succeed in the preliminary judgment writing exercise, lost the opportunity to be appointed...
View ArticleTeacher in court for touching pupil’s privates
Fungai Lupande Court Reporter A 34-year-old female teacher at a primary school in Mabvuku, Harare, appeared in court on Wednesday accused of touching the private parts of a Grade One female pupil while...
View ArticleZim pair’s trial date set in SA
Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau Judgment in the case of two Zimbabwean cross-border transporters and a woman believed to be part of a syndicate terrorising fellow countrymen in South Africa has been...
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