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A Bulawayo woman ganged up with relatives to severely assault a neighbour she allegedly caught being intimate with her husband.

Alice Mhloro and her relatives Nkosilathi Mpofu and Prominent Moyo allegedly rained blows on Simayedwa Nkala and whipped her with an electric cable until she fainted.

Other neighbours rushed her to hospital.

The trio did not beat up Mhloro’s husband, Odwel Mpofu.

They pleaded guilty to assault before Bulawayo magistrate Mr Batanayi Tuwe.

Mr Tuwe condemned Nkala’s behaviour saying it was an act of extreme provocation.

“In coming up with the sentence the court took it into consideration that the complainant provoked the accused to the extreme by sleeping with her husband. The court can’t ignore the fact that such provocation can cause very irrational responses.”

“Your sentence is as follows. Mhloro you are ordered to pay $15 or seven days in prison. Nkosilathi and Moyo you will each pay $40 or 30 days in prison,” said Mr Tuwe.

The prosecutor, Leonard Chile, said on November 18 around 1AM Odwel Mpofu was drinking beer with his brother Nkosilathi Mpofu when he invited Nkala to join them.

Nkosilathi is said to have left and informed Mhloro and her sister that Mpofu was with Nkala.

When Mhloro peeped through the window she saw her husband being intimate with Nkala on their matrimonial bed and called the two as witnesses.

“The three accused persons asked the complainant and Mpofu to open the door. While inside, they assaulted the complainant all over her body, leaving her unconscious. She was ferried to hospital leading to the accused’s arrest,” said Chile.