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Released psychiatric patient commits double murder
A psychiatric patient who was previously institutionalised for murder has been re-committed to the Chikurubi Psychiatric Unit after allegedly killing two more people, in a chilling case that has reign...Published: 19 Jun 2025 at 07:05hrs | 299 | by Staff reporter
Double murder accused businessman's trial stalls again
The murder trial of former fugitive and Gweru businessman Peter Dube, accused of killing two people and attempting to kill two more in a suspected love triangle, has hit another roadblock after he exh...Published: 27 Nov 2024 at 12:04hrs | 685 | by Staff reporter
Murder suspect ruled unfit to stand trial
The trial of Bright Zhantali, a suspected serial rapist and murderer, has been suspended following a psychiatric evaluation that deemed him mentally unfit to stand trial. Harare magistrate Dennis Mang...Published: 22 Nov 2024 at 06:56hrs | 168 | by Sgtaff reporter
Former ZANU-PF MP under fire for supporting alleged child abuser
Former ZANU PF Chivi South Member of Parliament Killer Zivhu has faced backlash on social media after pledging support for Shaw Mushati, a woman arrested for allegedly abusing her baby.Zivhu a...Published: 18 Oct 2024 at 20:22hrs | 559 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Toddlers gruesomely murdered
Farai Nyamurenje from Mutoko has been ordered for a third psychiatric evaluation to determine his mental state following the murder of his two-year-old son, Tatenda, in 2012. After the inciden...Published: 04 Sep 2024 at 07:54hrs | 252 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean pensioner charged with wife's murder in Wales car fire
An 80-year-old pensioner from Zimbabwe has been accused of murdering his 77-year-old wife following a car fire incident in Swansea, Wales.Helen Clarke tragically lost her life due to her injur...Published: 02 Oct 2023 at 19:26hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's estranged wife fit to face trial
The trial of Marry Mubaiwa will kick off on December 6 after two medical doctors who examined her indicated that she was mentally fit to follow court proceedings.Mubaiwa recently underwent psy...Published: 01 Dec 2021 at 05:36hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa is just like Mugabe
IT has long been a public secret that Zimbabwe was open for socioeconomic policy change. Although President Emmerson Mnangagwa was inaugurated in November last year, the voice of the people is unanimo...Published: 18 Jul 2018 at 08:42hrs | 2 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Vendor slams baby against court wall
THERE was pandemonium at the Gweru magistrate court's yesterday when a vendor facing theft charges allegedly smashed the head of her three months old daughter against the wall in protest after being r...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 06:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Lorry, bus accident driver now insane
Regis Mangwari, the driver of a South African-registered haulage truck which sideswiped a Johannesburg-bound Proliner bus killing 31 people on the spot and leaving 40 others injured near Mvuma along t...Published: 22 May 2017 at 19:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mum 'killer' refused mental illness evaluation
A MAN from Emganwini suburb in Bulawayo who allegedly killed his mother and hid her body under a bed, committed the crime to stop her from taking him to Ingutsheni Central Hospital for psychiatric...Published: 11 Feb 2017 at 09:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Shona High school headmaster redeployed to a primary school in Matabeleland
THE former headmaster of Tahangana High School, Mr Norman Muvimi, has been re-deployed to Lydeard Primary School in Marula, Mangwe District, by the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education....Published: 20 Jan 2017 at 05:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
No jail for 3 kids rapist
A 17-YEAR-OLD from Victoria Falls who raped three girls aged between 3 and 5 years, leaving them unable to walk properly, has escaped jail. The juvenile took advantage of his grandmother's absence to ...Published: 09 Aug 2016 at 08:52hrs | 2 | by Fairness Moyana
'Vampire killer' terrorises Khami Prison inmates
A MAN, dubbed the vampire killer, who sent police officers fleeing from Mvuma Police Station after vomiting blood and licking it up a few months ago is reportedly terrorising inmates and warders at Kh...Published: 12 Oct 2015 at 07:07hrs | 3 | by Oliver Kazunga
Psychiatric evaluation for Oscar Pistorius
Pretoria - Murder-accused Oscar Pistorius will be sent for psychiatric observation, the North Gauteng High Court ordered on Wednesday."I am satisfied that a case has been laid out... and ...Published: 14 May 2014 at 11:28hrs | 1 | by Sapa
'Baby slayer mum' goes for psychiatric evaluation
THE 22-YEAR-OLD Victoria Falls woman who on Tuesday allegedly beheaded her eight-month-old daughter before attempting to commit suicide has been sent for a psychiatric evaluation.Louislonh Gur...Published: 10 May 2014 at 06:43hrs | | by Leonard Ncube
Man axes wife, baby to death
A High Court judge has denied bail to a Marondera man who allegedly fatally axed his wife and two-month-old baby following a long-standing dispute over money.High Court Judge Joseph Musakwa ye...Published: 06 Apr 2014 at 12:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man strangles, attempts to hang father over food
A 63-YEAR-OLD Mangwe amplified the meaning of the adage 'a hungry man is an angry man' when he tied a noose around his 86-year-old father's neck and dragged him around the house in protest over be...Published: 18 Feb 2014 at 21:04hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Gono, Zimbabwe's next President'
FORMER Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) advisor to then Governor Gideon Gono, Munyaradzi Kereke Wednesday made sensational accusations that the ex-central bank boss had claimed that he will be the next...Published: 09 Jan 2014 at 07:38hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Polygamist 'kills wife' after being denied toilet sex
A HEATED altercation over conjugal rights turned fatal for a Dema woman who was allegedly axed to death by her husband, a polygamist, following her demands to be intimate with him in a toilet....Published: 16 Jan 2013 at 08:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Phoney prison officer steals keys to Zimbabwe's high security prison
A bogus prison officer stole duplicate keys to cells at Chikurubi Maximum, Harare Central and Remand prisons. The Zimbabwe Prison Service (ZPS) has activated its tracking systems amid fears that the f...Published: 06 Jun 2011 at 13:11hrs | | by Bhebhe Mandla
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