adminMercy Ngwebvu
INCESSANT assaults, insults and death threats from her brother and his wife left an Odzi woman with no choice but to seek a protection order from the courts last week.
Miriam Dozva appeared before Mutare magistrate Mrs Yeukai Chigodora praying for protection from her brother whom she described as violent and determined to ruin her peace or even kill her if given the chance.
“My brother and his wife have been attacking me and I need protection because I am helpless against them.
“The reason behind these attacks is that they want to take over my hard-earned assets if I die. I invested $800 in a tuckshop in our rural home which I asked him to help me run.
“When I went there in December last year to do the stocktaking and to check on progress, he started beating about the bush about how he had used the money realised from sales. We had an altercation and he attacked me with bricks on December 23 until I passed out.
“Since then, he would threaten to kill me so that he would take over my farm where I planted tobacco. As if that is not enough, his wife, Betty, is always insulting me, labelling me a woman of loose morals and I have had enough of this misery, Your Worship,” she said.
Asked to respond to all this, Miriam’s brother, Didymus Muchemwa, denied the allegations that were being levelled against him by his sister.
Instead, he told the court that he was amazed that his own sister would lie against him in his own face.
Said Didymus: “What my sister is telling this court is actually amazing. She is lying against me. I have never attacked her and the worst situation there has ever been between us is just a verbal argument, nothing more.”
His wife also denied ever insulting her sister-in-law.
In her ruling, Mrs Chigodora granted the protection order which barred Didymus and his wife from insulting or attacking Miriam, adding that the two should not disturb her peace in any way.
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