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Yeukai Karengezeka
Court Correspondent
A MAN from Chitungwiza has been sentenced to an effective eight years in jail for stabbing his colleague in the abdomen with a knife.
Farai Mafara (35) was convicted of attempted murder by Chitungwiza regional magistrate Mrs Gloria Takundwa.
Mafara was initially sentenced to 10 years imprisonment but two years were set aside on condition of good behaviour.
The complainant is Tobias Kwenje (36).
Prosecutor Ms Pamela Dzinduwa proved that on January 28 at around 6:30pm at Unit H Shops, Kwenje was outside the bar drinking beer.
Mafara appeared holding a knife and stabbed him once below the chest to the lower abdomen and on the back for no apparent reason.
Kwenje sustained deep wounds in the stomach.
In his defence, Mafara denied the charges, arguing that Kwenje was the one who assaulted him after he told him to stop fondling his sister.
He also said Kwenje hit him with an empty bottle on the head and he retaliated by stabbing him on the chest and stomach.
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