Online Reporter
Matthew Masinge
Tapiwa Makore’s killers, Tafadzwa Shamba and Tapiwa Makore Senior, have had their death sentences substituted with life imprisonment after a Supreme Court appeal.
The two were convicted of murdering seven-year-old Tapiwa Makore, who was brutally killed in a ritual murder case in 2020.
The boy’s body was found mutilated, with some body parts missing, in a case that sparked widespread outrage and calls for justice.
The duo challenged both their conviction and the imposition of their death penalties through an automatic right to appeal.
The Supreme Court upheld the appeal and could not confirm the High Court’s decision following the abolition of the death penalty from Zimbabwe’s laws.
