Strapped for Soiling Blankets

……leading to her dearth

By Kudzai Dube

It was very unfortunate for a young lady of Nicholas Madubeko’s homestead Chipanangore Village in Gokwe as she met her dearth after succumbing to back pains after being beaten twice for soiling the blankets.

After realising that her husband couldn’t continue looking after her relative (the deceased) the accused resorted to abusing her relative to the extent of even beating her for miscellaneous actions like soiling the blankets.

The accused fell in love with Enias Nduna and stayed together at house number B17 Turk mine worker’s compound in Inyathi where the crime took place.

The court through prosecutor Miss N Ngwasha learnt that the deceased was related to the accused in that the deceased’s father was a maternal uncle to the accused.

In her defence the accused to the police at Inyathi Police Station that the deceased had collapsed and died along the way as she was walking with her.

The accused pleaded guilty to culpable homicide and since she was a juvenile, the court sentenced her to go to reformatory school where she will be released after two years in her parent’s custody.

The law of Zimbabwe does not convict a minor whom will be of 16 years or below instead they are sent for canning of sent for probation and at times they are given community service.