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Chronicle Reporter
A 44-year-old Binga man will live to rue the day he decided to rape his stepdaughter after he was sentenced to 14 years in jail for the offence.
The man (name withheld to protect the girl), from Chinkobo Village under Chief Sinampande in Binga, raped his wife’s 11-year-old daughter last year.
Armed robbers on the prowl
By Temba Dube and Kamangeni Phiri
ROBBERS who steal vehicles and use them to commit armed robberies are on the prowl with five cases reported in Bulawayo and the Midlands in four days.
The robbers got away with a combined total of more than $15 000 plus four vehicles.
In Bulawayo, two armed men reportedly robbed a taxi driver of his vehicle and personal belongings before using the car in an armed robbery at a Grill Garage outlet in the city centre.
The suspects took the outlet’s till which had about $1 400, in the incident which occurred on Saturday at about 9pm.
The suspects allegedly hired a taxi from Mpilo Central Hospital to North End suburb where they assaulted and overpowered the driver.
They tied him up and left him at a bushy area near the United College of Education (UCE).
They later used the taxi as a getaway car when they hit the Grill Garage outlet at the corner of Jason Moyo Street and 10th Avenue.
A source close to the investigations said the robbers got away with about $1 500 and a cellphone in both robberies.
The suspects hit the owner of the taxi until they tore off his T-shirt, which they used to tie up his hands and feet.
“They left him tied up in a bushy area near the United College of Education and used the vehicle as a getaway car when they robbed Grill Garage,” said the source.