MDC-T members accused of bashing Mangoma, acquitted

A Harare Magistrate Mr Serima has dismissed claims by Elton Mangoma that he had been assaulted by members of the MDC-T  at Harvest House on the 15th of February this year.

The magistrate correctly found that  neither Mangoma nor the video recorded before, during and after the alleged assault could identify the accused persons as the perpetrators. In fact the magistrate wondered why the people who were actually captured on video attacking Mangoma were not arrested by the police.

He wondered why the complainant himself was not pressing charges against those individuals.

On the evidence of the other three witnesses who are part of the rebels expelled from the MDC-T was manifestly unreliable as it was too contradictory. These state witnesses said different versions of the same event. Correctly the magistrate said the evidence by Mangoma's witnesses was pathetic.

At the close of the State case, the magistrate acquitted the nine MDC-T youths namely Denford Ngadziore, Francis Machimbidzofa, Enock Mukudu, Samson Nerwande, Stefani Jahwi, Paul Gorekore, Shakespeare Mukoyi, Rhino Mashaya and James Chidhakwa.