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Emily Mbewe Court Reporter
A BULAWAYO restaurant worker raided his Chinese employer’s premises and assaulted a guard leaving him for dead before stealing $6,920 and R2,500.
Polite Dlodlo, 23, of Entumbane suburb was employed at Beijing restaurant as a waiter and robbed the Suburbs eatery on Monday at around 6PM.
He buried the money in a bush.
Dlodlo appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Marylin Mutshina yesterday charged with robbery.
He pleaded guilty and was remanded in custody to tomorrow (Friday) for sentencing.
The State’s case as presented by Dumisani Ndlovu is that on April 20 at around 6PM, the owner Liyun Hue was sitting at the front counter of the restaurant.
The court heard that Dlodlo scaled a precast wall surrounding the restaurant before hitting the guard on the head with an empty beer bottle rendering him unconscious.
Clad in a black trench coat, Dlodlo approached his employer who was in the restaurant and switched off the lights. He produced an iron bar and slammed it on a counter, forcing Hue to hide under it in fear.
Ndlovu told the court: “After noticing that his employer had hidden under the counter Dlodlo proceeded to take a bag which contained all the cash that they had made that day,” said Ndlovu.
He said Dlodlo went away with $6,920 and R2,500.
After Hue recovered, he was assisted to make a report to the police. Dlodlo’s trench coat, which he left while fleeing from the premises, was found by detectives.
Brighton Mpofu, one of the employees who is Dlodlo’s friend, confirmed that the jacket belonged to Dlodlo.
“Dlodlo was arrested and led the police to where he had hidden the money,” said Ndlovu.
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