Crimes & Courts

Two convicted robbers from Bulawayo’s Mpopoma suburb who robbed a woman of $60 and allegedly killed her co-tenant who had rushed to her rescue, were yesterday convicted of murder by a High Court judge.

A Polygamous Plumtree-based police officer accused of sexually molesting 20 pupils while conducting an investigation into an alleged sexual abuse at Bulu Primary school in Mphoengs, has approached the High Court seeking bail pending trial.

Two Gwanda-based game scouts have been arrested while their accomplice is at large after they reportedly beat a poacher to death and dumped his body in a dam in West Nicholson.

A 29 year old man from Bulawayo has appeared in court for escaping from Bulawayo Central Police Station.

Thieves have besieged the burnt State warehouse at Beitbridge Border Post where they are targeting mostly copper cables and related products still trapped under the debris, it has emerged.