Crimes & Courts

A private charter aircraft believed to have been carrying businessman Frank Buyanga and his son was last week forced to reroute to Dubai from South Africa after being turned away by authorities at OR Tambo International Airport.

Twenty-two people were on Saturday arrested for liquor related offences and the number of arrests for various offences since the beginning of the 21-day national lockdown has risen to 1918.

The Supreme Court has nullified the death sentence imposed on a Lupane man who killed two workmates at the late Vice-President John Nkomo’s Winterblock Farm in Insuza and ordered the High Court to resentence him.

Police in Victoria Falls are investigating a case where four junior officers, who were seemingly drunk, allegedly ran amok and assaulted residents leaving two injured and hospitalised on Friday evening.

An Inyathi man who killed his ex-wife by stabbing her five times with a flip knife for dumping him has been sentenced to 19 years in jail for murder.