Vusumuzi Dube
Taboka Tshuma, Sunday News Reporter
THREE men from Nyakudya village in Bindura have been sentenced to 38 years imprisonment each for ten counts of robbery.
Ladma Mutesa (39), Tapiwa Nyakudya (31) and Sande Saini (32) were arraigned before the Bindura Magistrates Court.
According to a statement by the National Prosecuting Authority of Zimbabwe (NPAZ), the accused persons and their accomplices who are still at large pounced on the complainant’s houses in Nyakudya Village in Bindura on 21 April 2024 armed with iron bars which they used to forcibly open the back door to gain entry into the main house where six complainants sleeping.
The accused persons and their accomplices manhandled the complainants and tied their hands with bricks force wire and ordered the complainants to surrender their cellphones before they ransacked the house and took groceries, house hold goods and US$350 cash.
“The following night the accused persons and their accomplices pounced on the second house in the same village and robbed three accupants of thier valuables, they knocked on the door and introduced themselves as police officers after the complainants opened the door they manhandled the complainants and force marched them to the main house where they forcibly took thier cellphones,” said the NPAZ
When one of the complainants who was not home when the gang arrived driving a Toyota Quantam the accused persons ambushed him and assaulted him using clenched fists, dragged him to a pigsty and tied his legs and hands to a pole before taking his cellphone and driving off in his motor vehicle ,
The total value of the stolen property was US$15 450 and property valued at US$13 450 was recovered.
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