Court Reporter
Two Beatrice men were yesterday sentenced to nine months in prison apiece after pleading guilty to stealing four bales of tobacco from their employer.
The stolen crop was valued at US$2 400. Francis Stablick Manyera (35) a Glen Avon Farm foreman and his counterpart Tofireyi Pindani (33) a truck driver at the farm in Beatrice

Court Correspondent
A self-styled prophet who sodomised a 17-year-old client after misrepresenting he would pray for a “feminine evil spirit” that was tormenting him in his dreams has been jailed an effective 13 years.

Crime Reporter
Police have arrested three more suspects in connection with the case in which brothers of the late notorious armed robber and murderer Edgar Edmund Masendeke, fatally assaulted a man after a misunderstanding during a beer drink in Kwekwe last month.

Chinhoyi Bureau
A Zvimba man has been arrested for raping his 13 year-old stepdaughter while her mother was away.
The man, who is a general labourer at a farm in the district, was left at home with his stepdaughter while his wife went to Chinhoyi on April 16.

Farai Kuvirimirwa  Court Reporter
A feuding couple stunned the court yesterday when the wife revealed the existence of a grave inside their bedroom on which the husband regularly defecated on a daily basis.
Pepukai Kuzovamunhu of 1248 Hopley Farm in Waterfalls made the revelations at Harare Civil Court where she was seeking a protection order against her husband Gideon

Senior Reporter
A Harare magistrate has dismissed an application for inspection-in-loco by the defence in the case in which Makoni South legislator Pishayi Muchauraya (MDC-T) is charged  with  threatening  to commit murder.

Innocent Ruwende Senior Court Reporter
JONATHAN MUTSINZE, who has been languishing in remand prison for 10 years awaiting sentencing on charges of armed robbery and murder, is expected to make a constitutional application at the Supreme Court challenging his continued incarceration after he secured legal representation.

Court Reporter
A Food Express manager who allegedly swindled a Beatrice farmer of potatoes worth more than US$30 000 was issued with a warrant of arrest after he failed to attend court.
Firoz Hassim (33) of 13 Glen Dower Road, South Downs in Gweru was issued with the warrant after he failed to appear before Chitungwiza magistrate Mr Kudakwashe Jarabini to

Court Reporter
A Chitungwiza-based pharmacist was yesterday fined US$800 for seriously assaulting his wife during a domestic dispute.
Simbarashe David Kamuriwo (34) of 13316 Unit N in Chitungwiza pointed a firearm and threatened to kill his wife Washaya Appollonia Tsindika.

Crime Reporter
POLICE have dismissed as false reports by some misguided and corrupt officers who are alleging that they had petitioned Commissiner-General Augustine Chihuri over alleged pampering of traffic section members with hefty allowances.

Abel Zhakata in MUTARE
THE trial of suspended Zanu-PF Manicaland chairman Mike Madiro and his deputy Dorothy Mabika was yesterday postponed to May 20.
The case entered its third day yesterday with seven State witnesses having testified when Mrs Lucie-Anne Mungwari adjourned proceedings.