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Shamva murder, cops charged with murder
28 Mar 2012 at 06:53hrs | Views
HARARE - Eight police officers who butchered a Shamva mine worker, Luxmore Chivambo and injured several others now face the hangman's noose.
Aspias Shumba, a 48-year-old inspector who led the orgy of brutality at a Shamva farm to revenge the theft of his wife's purse, did not show any emotion as he was charged with murder.
The maximum penalty for murder, according to Zimbabwean law, is death by hanging.
His accomplices, all wearing civilian clothes, equally appeared unmoved when they appeared at Harare Magistrates' Courts yesterday.
Their case had to be moved from Bindura to Harare for security reasons after angry mine workers and villagers thronged the Bindura Magistrates' Courts on Friday baying for the cops' blood.
The eight police officers, all stationed at Shamva Police Station, are Motion Jakopo, 41, Simon Mafunda, 32, Michael Makwalo, 30, Lee Makope, 23, Benedict Tapfuma, 22, Blessing Saidi, 29 and Shumba.
Harare magistrate Donald Ndirowei advised them to apply for bail at the High Court, considering the seriousness of the charges they are facing.
The cops will be back in court on April 13.
Chivambo, a worker at Canterbury Mine, died in the brutal attack that left 11 others hospitalised. One of the victims had to be transferred to Harare after his condition became critical.
Aspias Shumba, a 48-year-old inspector who led the orgy of brutality at a Shamva farm to revenge the theft of his wife's purse, did not show any emotion as he was charged with murder.
The maximum penalty for murder, according to Zimbabwean law, is death by hanging.
His accomplices, all wearing civilian clothes, equally appeared unmoved when they appeared at Harare Magistrates' Courts yesterday.
Their case had to be moved from Bindura to Harare for security reasons after angry mine workers and villagers thronged the Bindura Magistrates' Courts on Friday baying for the cops' blood.
The eight police officers, all stationed at Shamva Police Station, are Motion Jakopo, 41, Simon Mafunda, 32, Michael Makwalo, 30, Lee Makope, 23, Benedict Tapfuma, 22, Blessing Saidi, 29 and Shumba.
Harare magistrate Donald Ndirowei advised them to apply for bail at the High Court, considering the seriousness of the charges they are facing.
The cops will be back in court on April 13.
Chivambo, a worker at Canterbury Mine, died in the brutal attack that left 11 others hospitalised. One of the victims had to be transferred to Harare after his condition became critical.
Source - Daily News
