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A 29-year-old man from Gweru has appeared in court after he together with other two accomplices fatally assaulted a business man with machetes before robbing him of cash and a cell phone.
Phainos Cheza of Ascot suburb in Gweru was not asked to plead when he appeared before Mvuma magistrate Ms Constance Mutandwa facing a murder charge.
Ms Mutandwa advised Cheza to apply for bail from the High Court and he was remanded in custody to February 26.
Prosecuting, Michael Kazomba told the court that on January 1, Cheza with other accomplices hatched a plan to steal from the now deceased.
“On January 1, Cheza together with his two accomplices, Takunda Mugira and Anyway Mugoni who have since been arrested, connived to steal from Marko Dube,” he said.
The court heard that the three accused persons tricked Dube into believing that they wanted to sell him gold.
“They went to Dube’s home in plot 109 Peri-Urban in Mvuma and they misrepresented to Dube that they intended to sell him gold. Upon meeting him, the trio produced machetes and struck Dube all over his body until he fell down,” said Kazomba.
After gruesomely chopping Dube to death with machetes, they stole money and a phone.
“The accused persons went on to search the deceased and they took cash amounting to US$700 and a cell phone and they ran away leaving the deceased lying helpless in a pool of blood,” he said.
Dube’s body was found by a passer-by who then notified the police and the body was ferried to a mortuary.
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