Crimes & Courts

A post mortem has revealed that the suspected prostitute who was found dead in a Bulawayo lodge with 666 and a star linked to the occult inscribed on her stomach with a red substance, was strangled.

A man from Tsholotsho was axed to death while his suspected 14-year-old girlfriend had her stomach ripped open resulting in her intestines protruding, allegedly by a rival suitor in a suspected love triangle.

A Bulawayo City Council Fire Brigade officer and a police officer from Pumula have testified in an inquest into the death of an eight-year-old boy who drowned in a pit allegedly dug by the city council in Pumula East Suburb.

A 37 year old man from Bulawayo allegedly raped his 17-year-old neighbour and threatened to kill her after she turned down his love proposal.

A self proclaimed  prophet from Gwanda has been jailed 18 years for raping a 16-year-old juvenile under the pretext of healing her.