adminSukulwenkosi Dube Plumtree Correspondent
A PLUMTREE based police officer yesterday begged a court to imprison her husband, a local businessman, accusing him of being a violent man. Nokuthula Lusinga, 25, a detective in the border town, dragged her husband Alwyn Kikins, 30, to court after he allegedly assaulted her with a cooking stick and a baton. She sustained a deep cut on the head after the attack. “I do not feel safe your worship as long as he is out of custody because he might hurt me. He threatened to kill me for reporting him to the police,” said the detective.
“He is an abusive man and has been beating me up regardless of a protection order which was issued against him. I am afraid of him.”
Prosecutors say an altercation ensued after Lusinga went to Bulawayo for a work-related sporting event on Saturday and did not return to their Hebron home until the following day.
Kikins, the court heard, had received information that his wife was having an affair with one of her colleagues and concluded she had spent the night with the alleged boyfriend.
The man owns a number of properties in the border town.
“The two had a misunderstanding over the whereabouts of the complainant with her husband accusing her of infidelity,” said Medica Tshuma prosecuting.
“He picked up a cooking stick and hit the complainant several times on the body. He then took a baton stick and struck her on the head.”
Tshuma said Lusinga sustained a deep cut on the head and was referred to the hospital where stitches were applied to her wound.
She reported the matter to the police resulting in Kikins’ arrest.
The businessman disputed some of the facts presented by the State and the medical report.
Plumtree magistrate Gideon Ruvetsa remanded him out of custody on $50 bail to July 1 for trial.
“You are warned against interfering with the complainant or any of the State witnesses. You are to live separately from the complainant. You will henceforth move to number 99 Customs Road in Plumtree and not live at your home in Hebron area,” said Ruvetsa.
“A breach of any of these stipulations will be taken as an offence.”
The couple has a record of nasty domestic disputes which have, in the past, been solved in court.
In 2011, Lusinga sought a protection order against her husband and in 2012 she dragged Kikins to court over maintenance of their two children.
Lusinga later went back to live with her husband in March this year despite the protection order and Kikins stopped paying maintenance in violation of the court order.
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