Solomon Madzore denied bail

bail in case he is charged with murdering a police officer, the High Court heard yesterday.
Madzore who has previously lost bail applications at the High Court, on Wednesday offered to be confined to his house for 24 hours until the matter was finalised, as part of stringent bail conditions.
His brother Mr Paul Madzore and MDC-T spokesperson Mr Douglas Mwonzora undertook to deposit surety to the tune of US$5 000 each to secure his release.
Madzore also offered to surrender a registration book for his vehicle to the court to convince the court that he had no intentions to abscond.
He argues that police investigations were complete and that he had been offered an opportunity to complete his studies at the University of Zimbabwe and that further imprisonment would shutter his dreams.
But yesterday, law officer Mr Edmore Nyazamba opposed the bail application arguing that there were no changed circumstances.
He said the police were querying the ownership of the vehicle whose registration book Madzore undertook to surrender to the court as surety.
Mr Nyazamba said police were not comfortable that he owned the vehicle in question and that some investigations disclosed some suspicious issues on the vehicle acquisition that needed verification.
The prosecution also contends that the two legislators – Paul Madzore and Douglas Mwonzora – who offered surety of US$5 000 each, were suspects in other pending court cases and that they could not supervise another suspect on bail.
The State also argue that the issue of completion of studies at UZ was not a new issue constituting changed circumstances and that the offer was also being queried by the State.
The State, according to Mr Nyazamba, is failing to understand how Madzore was admitted for the programme while in remand prison.
Justice Mary Zimba-Dube deferred the hearing to Monday after directing the parties to file heads of argument addressing the court on what constituted changed circumstances in line with Section 116 c (ii) of the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act.
Madzore is part of the 24 suspects accused of murdering Inspector Petros Mutedza in May in Glen View where he was performing his duties as a police officer.
They are yet to be tried on the murder charges.
The bulk of the suspects was granted bail while Madzore and six others have lost their bids for freedom for fear that they would abscond.