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Jail escapee jailed six months
12 Dec 2015 at 04:19hrs | Views
A PRISONER who escaped from custody while doing work at the Mutare Show Grounds in July this year has been re-arrested and slapped with a six-month jail term.
Kennedy Mubvumbi (29) from Zimunya Township pleaded guilty to escaping from lawful custody as defined in Section 185 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, Chapter 9: 23 when he appeared before Mutare magistrate, Mr Langton Mukwengi.
Mr Fletcher Karombe appeared for the State.
Circumstances were that Mubvumbi, who was serving a 24-month sentence at Mutare Remand Prison, escaped from custody on July 29, 2015 at the Mutare Showgrounds.
"Mubvumbi was working together with eight other inmates at the Mutare Agricultural Show under the observance of prison officers, Marange and Matsvai. The accused pretended as if he was going to the toilet and ran away," said Mr Karombe.
Mubvumbi told the court that after his escape he went Mozambique in search of greener pastures.
"Your Worship, I had gone to make money in Mozambique but luck was not on my side as nothing came out of the gold panning that I ventured into," he said.
He went on to tell the court that he surrendered himself at Zimunya Police Station upon his arrival from Mozambique.
"When I came back from Mozambique last week, and proceeded to surrender myself at Zimunya Police Station since my home is also in Zimunya," he said.
Mubvumbi also chronicled how he made good his escape.
He dismissed claims that he pretended as if he was going to the toilet and told the court that he excused himself to the officers by telling them that he wanted to throw away the waste that was in his wheelbarrow.
"I lied that I was going to throw away the waste that I had in my wheelbarrow and when I was about nine metres away, I ran away," he said
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Kennedy Mubvumbi (29) from Zimunya Township pleaded guilty to escaping from lawful custody as defined in Section 185 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, Chapter 9: 23 when he appeared before Mutare magistrate, Mr Langton Mukwengi.
Mr Fletcher Karombe appeared for the State.
Circumstances were that Mubvumbi, who was serving a 24-month sentence at Mutare Remand Prison, escaped from custody on July 29, 2015 at the Mutare Showgrounds.
"Mubvumbi was working together with eight other inmates at the Mutare Agricultural Show under the observance of prison officers, Marange and Matsvai. The accused pretended as if he was going to the toilet and ran away," said Mr Karombe.
Mubvumbi told the court that after his escape he went Mozambique in search of greener pastures.
"Your Worship, I had gone to make money in Mozambique but luck was not on my side as nothing came out of the gold panning that I ventured into," he said.
He went on to tell the court that he surrendered himself at Zimunya Police Station upon his arrival from Mozambique.
"When I came back from Mozambique last week, and proceeded to surrender myself at Zimunya Police Station since my home is also in Zimunya," he said.
Mubvumbi also chronicled how he made good his escape.
He dismissed claims that he pretended as if he was going to the toilet and told the court that he excused himself to the officers by telling them that he wanted to throw away the waste that was in his wheelbarrow.
"I lied that I was going to throw away the waste that I had in my wheelbarrow and when I was about nine metres away, I ran away," he said
- See more at: http://www.manicapost.com/escaped-prisoner-hands-self-in/#sthash.yVhf6f6t.dpuf
Source - Manica Post
