Marvelous Moyo Gwanda Correspondent
A 22-YEAR-OLD Gwanda man who terrorised villagers by breaking into their homes where he raped, assaulted and robbed some of them, has been sentenced to an effective 16 years in jail.

Brighton Zibusiso Moyo of Buvuma area was convicted of 12 counts of assault, robbery unlawful entry, theft, kidnapping, rape and escaping from lawful custody by regional magistrate Joseph Mabeza.

He was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for raping a 19-year-old villager and a further 12 months in jail for kidnapping the same woman.

Moyo was slapped with another five years imprisonment for robbery which will run concurrently with the rape sentence.

Sentences for other crimes would also be served within the effective 16years and three months jail term.

He got one month imprisonment for each of the three counts of assault committed on different occasions.

Moyo was, however, acquitted of one count of unlawful entry and another of theft involving $1,606.

Prosecuting, Johannes Tlou said on February 14, this year, Moyo went to Butrine Bottle store in Fumukwe area in the middle of the night.

He broke into the premises and stole property worth $55 belonging to Irene Ncube, the store owner.

On the following day, at around 9PM, Moyo assaulted a 55-year-old-woman of Majiya village accusing her of witchcraft.

He went to her homestead, found the door of the house locked and forcibly entered the woman’s house where he found her with her daughter and nephew.

Moyo was holding an axe and in the other hand an Okapi.

He accused the woman of bewitching him and assaulted her several times on the head and all over the body, threatening to kill her if she shouted for help.

The woman fled from her home and spent the night at a nearby homestead.

Moyo then grabbed the woman’s daughter and took her to an unknown place where he raped her.

On the same night, Moyo attacked another villager, Senzeni Nyathi and threatened to kill her daughter for unknown reasons.

He threw stones and bricks at Nyathi who had locked herself in her bedroom, demanding to see her daughter.

Moyo assaulted other villagers with wooden sticks and robbed others of their money.

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