A group of faithful prisoners from Chikurubi Maximum
Security Prison assisted a prison officer in chasing after and apprehending two
inmates who had escaped during their daily chores.
There was drama when the two prisoners were spotted along
Mutoko Road by the officer and his group of prisoners while they were on their
way from another assignment and started running away.
The group then gave chase alongside a prison officer and
apprehended the two, about 500 metres away.
The escapees, John Penzura (38) and Peter Enock Muzanenhamo
(34) were yesterday jailed nine months each by Harare magistrate Mr Edwin
Marecha.
Mr Marecha had initially sentenced the two to 12 months in
prison before suspending three months on condition that they do not commit
similar offences within five years. He said inmates were assigned to work at
the prison farm, but hatched a plan to escape.
The two even changed clothes as a disguise. Penzura is
serving a four-year jail term for indecent assault, while Muzanenhamo is
serving five years for robbery.
It is the State’s case that on February 7, at around 11.15
am, a prison officer was on duty guarding Penzura and Muzanenhamo and other
inmates who were doing their daily chores of cleaning in the camp, when Penzura
and Muzanenhamo separated themselves from the other inmates, changed their
clothes and ran away.
Efforts to locate the two were fruitless. Penzura and
Muzanenhamo were spotted along Mutoko Road by prison officer Tatenda
Mudzinganyama, who was on his way from another assignment with other prisoners.
Herald
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