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Pritchard Zimondi, who killed his girlfriend Monalisa Chinomona and was jailed for 18 years seven years ago, had his application for condonation for late filing an appeal thrown out by the High Court yesterday.
What begun as an uneventful routine trial proceeding turned ugly and intense during the cross examination of defence witness, Mrs Julian Chineka, who is an aunt of accused murderer Pritchard Zimondi.
A police detail has claimed that Pritchard Zimondi confessed to murdering his girlfriend Monalisa Chinomora. It is further claimed that Pritchard revealed that he took Monalisa’s panties and bra as a reminder of her.
Pritchard Zimondi, who stands accused of brutally murdering his girlfriend Monalisa Chinomona in cold blood, was just a victim of circumstances, according to his lawyer.
HARARE – A High Court judge last week threw out a bail application by Pritchard Zimondi, who is accused of fatally stabbing his girlfriend Monalisa Chinomona (19) in Chitungwiza in April 2011. He reportedly left the knife stuck on the woman’s breast and ran away.
The lawyer representing Pritchard Zimondi, who is facing allegations of killing his girlfriend Monalisa Chinomona in cold blood, has been accused of “employing delaying tactics” by the State.
Pritchard Zimondi, who allegedly fatally stabbed her girlfriend in Chitungwiza, used a backdoor to enter the courtroom on Wednesday after relatives of the girl sealed the entrance threatening to beat him up.
Pritchard Zimondi, who allegedly fatally stabbed his girlfriend 15 times in Chitungwiza, denied committing the crime when his trial opened yesterday. He said he never saw the girlfriend, Monalisa Chinomona (19), on April 24, the day she was killed.
A 24 year old Chitungwiza man, who reportedly fatally stabbed his girlfriend 15 times in the chest and fled with her undergarments, yesterday appeared in court facing murder charges. Prichard Zimondi of Unit K, Seke, was not asked to plead to the charge when he appeared before Chitungwiza magistrate Ms Barbra Chimboza.