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A 38-YEAR-OLD Bulawayo man from Old Magwegwe has been locked up after he allegedly stormed into his ex-wife’s bedroom in the dead of night, broke a window, chased away her boyfriend and brutally assaulted her before raping her.
Brighton Dube left a court dumfounded when he claimed he had stormed the house to “save a crying child” and did not know his wife was inside.
He appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Taurai Manwere facing charges of unlawful entry and rape. He was remanded in custody to 23 October.
Prosecutor Jethro Mada told the court that the harrowing incident occurred on 27 July around 4AM at the home of the complainant. Dube, accompanied by a friend, allegedly smashed a bedroom window to gain entry.
Inside, his ex-wife was sleeping with her boyfriend. The friend reportedly chased the boyfriend out while Dube dragged his ex-wife from the bedroom into the sitting room where their children were sleeping.
He switched off the lights, ordered her to lie on the blankets, and allegedly forced himself on her.
“After he got into the complainant’s house, he got hold of the complainant, and his friend restrained the boyfriend and dragged him outside,” said Mada.
In court, Dube tried to justify his rampage with a bizarre excuse, claiming he broke the window because he heard a child crying and thought something was wrong.
“I only wanted to help the child,” he said, denying that he intended harm or that he knew who was inside.
The prosecutor rubbished the story, saying Dube had no permission to enter and his real motive was to attack his ex after “catching” her with another man. There was no way he could not have known his ex-spouse lived there.
Dube insisted he was not sexually aroused but “angered” to see his former wife being intimate with someone else. He said it was “unethical” for her to be with another man since they were still talking, and that her “secretive actions” had pushed him over the edge.
The magistrate remanded Dube in custody to 23 October, pending further investigation.
