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Zanu-PF official rapes teen girl at gunpoint

by Mafu Sithabile
11 Feb 2015 at 16:03hrs | Views
THE Zanu-PF councillor for Ward 12, Mkoba, Gweru, allegedly held a gun to a 16-year-old girl and raped her on separate occasions at a local lodge.

The flamboyant Councillor Charles Simbi, 44, of house number 6102, Gwenhoro Road, Southview, appeared before magistrate Judith Taruvinga yesterday and was remanded out of custody on $100 bail to March 10 for trial.

Clr Simbi is known countrywide as 'Drosky,' a name on the personalised licence place of his Chrysler.

Prosecuting Daniel Tafuma told the court Clr Simbi gave the girl a lift in his car.

He said the councillor drove past her destination to a lodge in Lundi Park.

Clr Simbi allegedly asked the girl for sex, promising to do an unspecified service for her in return. The girl allegedly turned him down and he produced a pistol and threatened to kill her.

The court heard that Clr Simbi forcibly undressed the girl and raped her.

Clr Simbi allegedly threatened the girl and made it a habit to pick her up and rape her at the lodge using the same method until November last year.

The girl finally told a neighbour about her ordeal and was assisted to make a police report, leading to the arrest of Clr Simbi.

Source - Byo24News
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