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Police officers assault suspect to death
26 Feb 2014 at 07:27hrs | Views
Two police officers, Proud Moyo and Mavis Matema from Sauerstown Station in Bulawayo who tortured a suspect to death appeared in court yesterday charged with murder.
The two were assigned to investigate a malicious damage to property case that involved five suspects including the deceased, Samson Ncube aged 20.
Moyo and Matema allegedly took turns to assault Ncube with a fan belt and a baton stick.
Ncube was found dead in a garden at his family home in Richmond.
A post-mortem was conducted and results showed that Ncube had died from a head injury caused by assault.
Source - zimmail