Crimes & Courts

Three Victoria Falls men have been arrested after they severely assaulted their neighbour until he lost consciousness before dumping his body in a nearby drain filled with sewage.

What do you do when you’re married and your partner doesn’t want to have sex anymore? Such is the dilemma being faced by a 50-year-old woman from Ntabazinduna, Matabeleland North province who sued her 54-year-old husband for neglecting his “marital duties” by refusing to have sex with her.

A Bulawayo businessman is at the centre of a messy intimate-partner abuse storm after his wife sensationally claimed that he was in the habit of physically and sexually abusing her as punishment for “bewitching” him and his family.

The trial of Mutare socialite, Pension Gwinyai (52), who is facing assault and attempted murder charges following last year’s public violence incident in which he allegedly hit a soldier with a vehicle at a bottle store in Dangamvura, has kicked off at the Mutare Magistrates’ Courts.

Former Malawian presidential aide Norman Chisale has been cleared of attempted murder charges on Friday, Malawi media reported.