adminTinashe Hazvide
LOSING his girlfriend to a fellow brother in Christ led a Mutare man to text vulgar messages threatening to have his girlfriend back. Appearing before senior Mutare magistrate Mrs Sekai Chiundura, Munyaradzi Mlambo (20) pleaded guilty to the charges of sending vulgar messages to Alexandra Chikadzino.
The court heard that on September 9 Mlambo sent a vulgar message to Chikadzino insulting his mother and Chikadzino responded by asking him why he had sent such an obscene message. The following day, Mlambo sent another message of the same nature around 10am and Chikadzino decided to report the matter to the police leading to Mlambo’s arrest.
In his defence, Mlambo said Chikadzino had snatched his girlfriend and was angered by the development. He said he decided to attack Chikadzino through messages.
“He snatched my girlfriend, Your Worship, and I was angered by this. I know what I did was wrong and had no right to do it,” said Mlambo.
Mrs Chiundura said he should be ashamed of sending such messages to a fellow brother in Christ because of a girlfriend and added that because of that she was going to slap him with a stiff punishment to deter him from repeating the same offence.
She also asked him if he loved the girlfriend to the extent that he would risk going to jail at the expense of his liberty.
He was ordered to pay a fine of $150 before September 30 or face two months in jail if he failed to pay.
Two months were wholly suspended on condition that he did not commit the same offence in the next five years.
Mrs Chiundura also took into consideration the fact that he was a first offender who pleaded guilty and did not waste the court’s time.
Online Reporter