Man shoves cooking stick into wife's privates

HARARE Civil Court magistrate Trevor Nyatsanza yesterday presided over a matter where a woman accused her husband of routinely dipping a cooking stick into her private parts to "check" if she had indulged in sexual encounters with other men.

The woman, whose identity has been withheld, shocked other litigants in court when she revealed that her husband, Everson Godhini, was in the habit of physically abusing her and accusing her of messing up their family toilet.

In her submission, the woman also accused Godhini of having an extra-marital affair with another woman who at one point also assaulted her with the help of her friends.

The woman also told the court that Godhini sometimes orders their children to lock her outside her matrimonial home while calling her all sorts of names and even labelling her a thief.

However, Godhini denied the allegations telling the magistrate that they only had an argument once following an incident where she left home at around 3pm claiming to have gone to attend a church service and returned home around 7pm.