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Sakhile Tanyanyiwa aged 34, who is wife to former Commissioner Mekia Tanyanyiwa, appeared before the Gweru Magistrates Court on Wednesday facing charges of kidnapping an infant aged two months.
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She was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment of which six months was suspended for five years. She will serve 12 months imprisonment. Circumstances are that on 8 March, the infant’s mother went to Gweru Provincial Hospital to collect her baby’s birth record. On her way back she was offered a lift into town by the accused person who was in the company of another man and woman.
The three were in a white Toyota Aqua vehicle. One of the occupants in the vehicle advised her that they would be making a stopover in South View on the way to town. When they got to South View, the accused person asked the infant’s mother to assist the woman with a “newly born” to disembark from the vehicle. As she got out of the vehicle the car sped off headed towards the Gweru – Bulawayo highway with the three people and her baby.
The mother of the baby reported the matter to the Police. The accused took the child home and misrepresented to her husband that she had given birth. Her husband did not believe that the child was a newly born infant and doubted her story all the more when he heard that a baby had been snatched in Gweru. The former top cop took his wife (the accused) and the baby to the police in Gweru. She was positively identified by the infant’s mother at a formal identification parade. (Source: @crime watch)
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