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ABUNDANT Global Life Ministries leader, Bishop Danmore Magorimbo, was secretly captured on a 17-minute long recording by the woman whom he is accused of having raped while trying to explain the events that unfolded on the day of the said sex abuse incident.
Bishop Magorimbo was secretly captured by the woman on her mobile phone along with his church’s intercessor, Leeshalow Kambiro, the day after the alleged rape.
The clergyman was recorded after he called the woman to the church with the intention to “explain to her the events of the previous day” which the woman believed was being done in a bid to instil fear and convince her that all was done in the name of God and make sure that she would not take the matter to the police.
Bishop Magorimbo is being accused of raping the woman while claiming to be cleansing her.
Kambiro was also taken to court facing rape charges as an accessory and is expected to stand trial. The recording was tendered in court as an exhibit by prosecutor Michael Reza during trial.
It also emerged during the on-going trial that Bishop Magorimbo once offered the woman’s husband $1 million in adultery damages after he discovered that the man of cloth had slept with his wife.
Reports were that Magorimbo’s bid was quashed after the couple’s lawyer advised them to lodge a complaint against him after noting that there was no consent when he (Magorimbo) had sex with her.
He was arrested and taken to court charged with rape.
Bishop Magorimbo, through his defense lawyer, Charles Chinyama, made an effort through an application to have the recording NOT tendered as an exhibit.
Lawyer Chinyama argued that it was not provided for in the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act to tender such exhibits saying it was inadmissible.
Prosecutor Reza told the court that the State was allowed to tender all relevant evidence except for hearsay or characterised evidence according to the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act.
He also argued that it was relevant for the State to produce such evidence considering that Lawyer Chinyama had mentioned it (recording) in their defence outline.
The matter continues today with lawyer Chinyama expected to cross-examine the woman.
Magistrate Adonia Masawi presided over the matter.
This story originally appeared in the H-Metro.
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