Courts and Crime

Followers of Shepherd and Mary Bushiri have spoken out against the arrest of their “spiritual parents”, who are facing allegations of fraud, theft and money laundering. The Bushiris remain behind bars after the state postponed their bail application to Friday. The couple appeared before the Pretoria specialised commercial crimes court …

Harare City Planner Priscila Charumbira, wife to National Chiefs Council president Fortune Charumbira has been granted $40 000 bail by Harare regional magistrate Bianca Makwande. Charumbira was also ordered not to visit her workplace or any City of Harare premises for a month to enable investigations to be carried out …

Police in Beitbridge have arrested five men suspected to have been part of a gang of armed robbers that was terrorising Beitbridge residents together with the notorious John Sithole alias Kedha who was killed in a shootout with the police last Thursday. Kedha held 10 people hostage at his rented …

Buhera South Member of Parliament Joseph Chinotimba on Tuesday caused a scene at Belvedere Vehicle Inspection Department by blocking a Norton man’s vehicle he suspected of caressing and kissing his second wife. VID officials and onlookers were treated to a show as Chinotimba and team dragged Mahachi of Maridale Park …

A daring bogus medical doctor deployed himself to Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals posing as a Physician Registrar, Nhau has learnt. According to a statement released by the hospital, the fake doctor had infiltrated the hospital’s Accident and Emergency Department. “The matter was discovered after our vigilant Casualty Staff doubted his …

Former ZANU PF youth chairperson Godfrey Tsenengamu has been granted bail by High Court Judge Justice Davison Foroma on charges of inciting people to participate in the flopped July 31 anti-looting demonstrations. His lawyer Advocate Harrison Nkomo has just confirmed the latest development. Tsenengamu was ordered to deposit $10 000 …

The burial of the seven-year-old boy, Tapiwa Makore, killed and dismembered in a suspected ritual murder in Murehwa, will be delayed as police need the results of DNA tests on the torso, recovered first, and the limbs, found in a toilet later, to prove all the body parts belong to …

Police have arrested a Mhangura couple after they allegedly murdered their two-year-old daughter and secretly buried her along Hunyani River bank. Norest Masvova (32) and his wife Elizabeth Dinhidza (24) were allegedly panning for gold along Hunyani River together with their two-year-old daughter when the incident happened. TheThe toddler reportedly …

Prominent investigative journalist Hopewell Chin’ono made an application for a Harare magistrate to recuse himself from handling his criminal case before the Harare Magistrates court, Tuesday. Chin’ono through his lawyers Doug Coltart and Gift Mtisi told Harare magistrate Ngoni Nduna that he no longer wanted him to preside over his …

Doug Coltart updates on what transpired at Harare Magistrates Court where his client Hopewell Chin’ono intended to make an application for the recusal of magistrate Ngoni Nduna from handling his case further.