Crimes & Courts

Harare regional magistrate Mr Ngoni Nduna is next week expected to make a ruling on a fresh bail application on changed circumstances made by Henrietta Rushwaya’s accomplices in the gold smuggling cases they are facing.

The Judiciary Service Commission (JSC) has refuted claims circulating on social media that High Court judge justice Benjamin Chikowore is under probe for releasing on bail a gang of notorious armed robbers led by Musa Taj Abdul.

A man whose rifle was used in the US$2,7 million cash heist that occurred along the Harare-Chinhoyi Road, yesterday appeared in court on allegations of supplying the firearm to the gang that pretended it was involved in poaching and promised to return the gun with some meat.

Sunninghill residents woke up without electricity on Tuesday morning after thieves stole overhead copper cables worth an estimated US$15 000.

Police in Bulawayo are recording at least three robberies weekly as criminals are now taking advantage of the Covid-19 induced lockdown to waylay and rob people, particularly pedestrians using bush pathways.