The accused faces one count of murder and 2 counts of attempted murder as defined respectively in ss 47 and 189 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23]. When the matter was called, the State and defence counsels advised the court that they needed time to draft an agreed statement of facts. The defence counsel had also just hurriedly taken instructions from the accused whom she had failed to access because he had not been transferred from Mutoko prison to Harare. The hearing was postponed to the following day, the 28th February, 2017. The prosecution moved the... More
The accused was convicted after she pleaded guilty to the charge of assault as defined in s 89 (1) (a) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Cap 9:23] by the Resident Magistrate at Murambinda on 15 June 2010. More
The accused is charged with murder. She is alleged to have set her husband alight on 20 September 2009. On that fateful night the deceased got home drunk and proceeded to fall asleep. While he was fast asleep the accused set him alight thereby causing him fatal burns from which he died on 23 September 2009. The post mortem report confirmed death was due to respiratory failure due to the 85% degree burns which he sustained. More
All three accused pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder involved their brother Oscar Chimbuya (“the deceased”). The undisputed facts are as follows. 1st accused pulled down the tombstones erected by the deceased on their father’s grave. He took the stones and placed them in a dish. He placed this dish with the said tombstones, inside the deceased’s kitchen hut. Upon learning that the 1st accused was behind this abomination, the deceased reported the matter to their village head. The village head then set up a team which included the deceased. This team was to approach the 1st accused... More
The accused Patrick Mapita pleaded guilty to a charge of murdering his father on the night of 20th of May 2013, when he is alleged to have struck him with a pestle following a domestic dispute. More
